I showed up there to do my job and she wanted me to admit to doing things.” Rep. LaMonica McIver describes her communications with Acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba following charges Habba’s department filled against her over a visit to an ICE detention facility earlier this month.

The top prosecutor in New Jersey says her office has filed criminal charges against Democratic Representative LaMonica McIver.

Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) knocked acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba over her prosecution of his fellow Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.), calling the charges against her “trash.” Habba charged the first-term congresswoman with two counts of assault stemming from an incident in which she and two of her colleagues sought to inspect a U.

Alina Habba taunted with boos and shouts of ‘shame’ as she arrives at hearing for arrested Newark mayor - Ras Baraka says he was ‘targeted’ by the Trump administration with politically motivated selec

The charges are related to a scuffle at a New Jersey ICE facility that resulted in the arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka.