Jamie Raskin And Jasmine Crockett Warn Trump After Rep. McIver Charged

After the DOJ charged Rep. LaMonica McIver with assault of an ICE agent, top House Democrats like Jamie Raskin and Jasmine Crockett had a strong warning for Trump.

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Trump DOJ Tries To Intimidate House Democrats

A situation that has been building for months finally came to a head on Tuesday when the DOJ charged Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) with assault over a scuffle with ICE at a Newark, NJ detention facility.

Video shows that it was the ICE agents who were violent toward members of Congress, but Trump’s interim US attorney for New Jersey, Alina Habba, chose to charge Rep. McIver.

House Democrats led by Judiciary Committee ranking member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) saw through the intimidation and warned Trump that an attack on one House Democrat is viewed by the Democrats as an attack on all House Democrats.

Rep. Raskin and other House Democratic ranking members wrote:

The targeting of Representative McIver is a blatant attempt to intimidate Members of Congress and to block our oversight of this administration’s actions, which have been enjoined more than 150 times by federal courts. We stand by Representative McIver’s exercise of her constitutional rights and duties. If you come for the legal rights of one of us, you come for the rights of all of us.

Members of Congress have the right to conduct oversight, full stop — whether that’s holding Cabinet officials accountable or visiting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities. Representative McIver was performing her proper oversight role, a role she was elected by the American people to do — and even participated in a one-hour tour after the incident occurred.

Charging Members of Congress for doing our jobs is a dangerous precedent to set. It reveals the increasingly authoritarian nature of this Administration and its relentless, illegal attempts to suppress any dissent or oversight, including from judges, Members of Congress, and the American people, which check lawless executive power. Representative McIver has our full support, and we will do everything in our power to help fight this outrageous threat to our constitutional system.

The members of the House who issued the joint statement were Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, Rep. Jasmine Crockett, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Oversight, Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, Rep. Hank Johnson, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet, and Rep. Lucy McBath, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance,

Next, we’ll discuss what happens next and why this charge is likely to be laughed out of court.