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

Habba, who had no prosecutorial experience but represented President Donald Trump in three civil trials in recent years, ...

McIver's fellow Democrats within the state's congressional delegation were quick to speak out against Habba's actions. Rep. Frank Pallone, the senior Democrat representing New Jersey in the House ...

The complaint was presented to a U.S. magistrate judge shortly before New Jersey’s interim U.S. attorney, Alina Habba, ...

Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver has denied any wrongdoing and accused federal agents of escalating the situation.

Alina Habba, interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey ... All four officials were allowed into the center and the three congressional Democrats tried to include Baraka—who had been denied entry ...

On May 9, McIver joined two other House Democrats from New Jersey and Newark ... from the fence as they tried to stop his arrest. But Habba simultaneously announced on Monday that her office ...