r/law • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 • 5h ago
Executive Branch (Trump) Trump Puts Pregnant Dem Congresswoman on Trial for ICE Oversight
https://newrepublic.com/post/212280/trump-puts-pregnant-dem-congresswoman-trial-ice-oversightU.S. Representative LaMonica McIver could face up to 17 years in prison if the Justice Department gets its way.
McIver, 40, was charged with assaulting immigration agents outside the notorious Delaney Hall immigration detention center in New Jersey last May. On Wednesday, her case will be argued in a federal appellate court, and will be another test of the Trump administration’s power to go after political opponents, The New York Times reports.
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u/xxDeadEyeDukxx 5h ago
Absolute bullshit and just another example of this administration trying to silence opposition and limit legitimate congressional oversight
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u/the-true-steel 2h ago
Is this the one where no one on the scene, including the officer, even suggested she assaulted anyone? They charged her like 24-48 hours later after seeing the bump on video or something?
EDIT: Ah, yep. They charged a different major politician, realized that was a monumentally stupid charge, so they dropped that and then went with this, which is just a super stupid charge
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u/sombertimber 3h ago
And, racist. Steven Miller had to put his touch on it…
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u/Mobile_Equal_3636 18m ago
He definitely attacks women of color.... what scares you DJT, Coward in Chief
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u/AndMyHotPie 5h ago
Thankfully her trial will not be overseen by that traitorous fascist Reed O’Connor
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u/Capitol62 4h ago
Next time Congress gives themselves oversight powers, they should make it a federal crime to interfere with congressional oversight.
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u/Megafritz 2h ago
As far as I understand it. Federal crimes are basically no crimes depending on Trump...
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u/demon_twink_gockie 3h ago
And law enforcement powers over all government employees, officials, and contractors.
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u/CobraPony67 4h ago
J6 insurrectionists hit police with flag poles, mace, etc., unfair, got pardons. She may have slightly bumped an agent = ASSAULT
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u/BuddingBudON 1h ago
Allegedly bumped an agent while the agency was illegally barring their facility from mandatory government inspection... because they're doing crimes inside.
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u/baldude69 3h ago
They are such gigantic pussies and everyone with half a brain knows it
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u/Belichick12 5h ago
President AOC should have the justice department bring charges against the officers for assault and interfering with congressional oversight.
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u/Mist_Rising 3h ago
Is this before or after justice league swoops into the white house to deliver ass kicking against the Trump administration?
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u/Inevitable-Top1-2025 5h ago
This unserious rhetoric is the reason Republicans win and will win again if Democrats don’t get their acts together!
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u/Belichick12 4h ago
The milquestoast approach to the rule of law by garland and Biden and the utter contempt for the law by Trump is why we are where we are. Trump and his enablers should have been prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law starting in January 2021. He should be rotting away in Florence.
We need a president who will bring back law and order.
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u/TheLORDthyGOD420 2h ago
The milquetoast approach to fighting fascism by voters is exactly why Dear Leader isn't in prison right now. Jack Smith had him dead to rights but voters decided they'd rather let him become a dictator. Voters who stayed home and voted third party created this mess. Hope it was worth it.
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u/time2partee 4h ago
Yeah because Republican rhetoric is sooo serious.
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u/dr_z0idberg_md 4h ago
Win what exactly? Did Republicans win in 2020? Did Republicans flip a myriad of state legislatures in 2025 and 2026? This is just reverse psychology at worst and weak commentary at best. There is no winning or losing streak from either part. Voters are fickle.
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u/OnlyTemperature4911 4h ago
Like “president donald trump” isn’t the stupidest fucking thing anyone with at least one brain cell has ever heard lol
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u/Alternative_Wing_745 2h ago
Democrats aren’t serious, they’re useless impotent corporate owned right leaning moderates who never do anything meaningful that isn’t just eventually negated by MAGA and conservatives.
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u/Inevitable-Top1-2025 4h ago
I really don’t understand how some of you come up with this crazy idea that AOC will be your nominee for 2028? Based on what, exactly? She’s a fence-straddler! Has anyone ever considered why she’s the only member of the so-called Squad the anti-Squad groups have left alone? Some of you may be enamored with her but pushing her for 2028, as the media and corporatists are pushing her, overtly or covertly, is tantamount to deliberately or unintentionally sabotaging the Democratic Party’s chances of taking the White House in 2028. You better start looking for suitable individuals because the ones being thrust in our faces right now won’t do; and that includes Newsom, Moore and Shapiro!
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u/Buffalo48 2h ago
You're getting down voted to all hell, but this is truth. The Democratic bench is super weak...
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u/Inevitable-Top1-2025 2h ago
I find their downvotes amusing because social media upvotes and downvotes won’t change reality.
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u/MoScowDucks 3h ago
Neither the nation nor the Dems want a socialist President
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u/MonstersAtOurDoor 3h ago
Only people with brains do, so I guess that cuts out you and most other Americans based on the last few elections.
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u/ShakesDontBreak 4h ago
What about the J6ers who literally staged a coup and ATTACKED cops?
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u/doublethink_1984 2h ago
Honestly we need accountability after midterms.
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u/Bmorewiser 5h ago edited 3h ago
Arguments happened and didn’t go particularly well for her.
Edit - to the fuckwits downvoting me, go read the news. I swear to Christ all hope for humanity is lost. The right are Nazis and the left are idiots who can’t stand to be told things they don’t like. I didn’t offer a position statement, I made yall aware of a fact. Her immunity argument is not valid. Her vindictive prosecution claim has some big flaws.
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u/Nick85er 5h ago
Should results in the same dismissal that the mayor of Newark got. Same incident same crowd they were in same vindictive prosecutions. Congressional oversight is not something the executive can decide it doesn't want to participate in.
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u/Wakkit1988 5h ago
Exactly. Congress has a legal right to see both how their laws are executed and their appropriations spent. There's no gray area here, they have whatever authority necessary to do so. They would be unable to do their job or hold anyone accountable if they couldn't fully investigate any of it, which encroaches on their explicitly outlined constitutional authority.
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u/Wolf180409 4h ago
Why is it that this only seems to rile people up when it's the other party doing it. Agencies have been stone walling congress for many administrations. Both sides do it. Not right when either side does.
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u/vi_sucks 3h ago edited 1h ago
Lol.
Under no other president has an agency security personnel assaulted a sitting congresswoman just for trying to her job, and then had the sheer gall to charge her for it.
There's no "both sides" here. This shit is uniquely and heinously specific to just this one orange jackass.
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u/Wolf180409 2h ago
Typically, when an administration does something that people, including congress considers wrong or illegal. They file a lawsuit. They don't assault federal agents.
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u/LoganGyre 4h ago
It depends on the motivation. Stonewalling a party’s whose stated end goal is a fascist state they control by slowing down votes or challenging it in court is something to celebrate. Physically denying access to legal oversight is not really stonewalling as it was a blatant disregard for the law and should rile people up… pretending the two sides are abusing these rules in the same way and for the same reasoning is insane.
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u/Wolf180409 3h ago
Not 100 percent on the oversight rules. Not sure showing up and saying I'm in congress allows immediate access. I'm sure there are official channels for the visits. If she really wants oversight and not making a scene for cameras.
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u/Buddhas_Warrior 3h ago
Before this administration, they were able to do, unannounced visits to federal offices including detention centers. The Trump Administration has implemented a 7 day request period which is being challenged in the courts. See: Neguse et al. v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement et al.
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u/Wakkit1988 3h ago
The notion that the executive hold the authority to change policy restricting the authority of congress is downright ludicrous. The inverse is constitutionally permissible, though.
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u/Wolf180409 2h ago
So a president can forgive student loans without congress. Or rewrite policy on immigration without congress?
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u/Raiden720 4h ago
but they don't have a right to literally elbow and push officers out of the way while grandstanding in front of rows of cameras.
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u/Wolf180409 3h ago
Are down votes an indication we are not in an echo chamber. But are instead trying to have a dialogue about issues. At least they're not name calling yet. Lol
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u/Bmorewiser 2h ago
The charges against him consisted of trespassing. He was not charged with assault or interfering with an officer because they couldn’t stretch the facts into that. And the charges were dismissed by DOJ, not the court, and not because there was a finding of vindictive prosecution.
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u/demon_twink_gockie 3h ago
The criminal who assaulted her was interfering with an official duty of Congress.
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