“In the end, this is political intimidation,” McIiver told a crowd of supporters who had gathered before the Newark Federal Justice Palace.
Mciver is accused in an indictment to three chiefs To slam a federal agent with his forearm, “forced” catch him and use him his forearms to strike another agent. Allegations of physical violence by an in -office member of the congress are rarewith a handful of incidents, including pre-procureurium war Senator Bouetage by a member of the house.
The Mciver allies, including two other Democrats who were with her during the incident, deposited accusations as politicians and said that she was brutal by federal agents. His allies also try to turn the tables of the federal prosecutor by bringing the case, the American acting lawyer in New Jersey, Alina Habba.
The campaign for responsibility, a liberal surveillance group, filed a complaint this week against Habba with the office of the lawyer of New Jersey lawyer.
The complaint alleys that Habba acted badly since he became a prosecutor and quotes his actions in the McIver case, as well as comments on the transformation of “New Jersey Red” and to announce investigations on its Democratic Governor and Attorney General on Immigration.
A Habba spokesperson did not respond to a request for comments.
“In an atmosphere where other surveillance organizations are transformed into political influence, the bar duty to be applied independently of these rules is increasingly important,” said group executive director Michelle Kuppersmith.
Habba, who represented Donald Trump in court between his presidencies, is already confronted a trial Presented against her by the mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, who was arrested for intrusion into the detention center before the abolition of the accusations and a judge questioned Habba’s judgment.
When she Announced for the first time Accusations against Mciver, Habba, said that she had “made efforts to solve these problems without bringing criminal charges and gave the representative McIiver every opportunity to solve, but she unfortunately refused”. The complaint of the surveillance group alleys that it was inappropriate to say that the accusations were subordinate to McIiver who took measures commanded and approved by Habba.
CAMPAIGN for Liability filed a complaint similar to New York against another federal prosecutor, Emil Bove, after having moved to abandon the accusations against the mayor of New York, Eric Adams. The New York lawyer’s grievance committee refused to act and rather transferred the complaint to the Ministry of Justice.
The accusations against Mciver are an extraordinary stress test for the separation of powers at a time when Trump seeks to maximize the domination of the executive branches. In recent weeks, the candidate for the town hall of New York Brad Lander handcuffed and arrested By federal agents while escorting migrants from immigration hearings and Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) Was forcibly removed from a press conference from the Ministry of Internal Security.
Neither Lander nor Padilla was accused of nothing. The two Democrats who were with McIiver outside the immigration establishment – the representatives Bonnie Watson Coleman and Rob Menendez – were not charged either.
The three Democrats of New Jersey said they were in the immigration detention center exercising their surveillance functions and were scrambled by federal agents. Since their supervision visit, several prisoners have escaped and has been reported in poor conditions within the establishment, which the private company which runs the establishment denied.
McIver appeared practically during a previous hearing in May, after the accusations, but before a great jury returned an indictment. It was authorized to appear remotely from Washington because the congress was in session. Since then, the indictment has placed its case before judge Semper.
Semper has established a calendar for legal arguments that could create a trial in early November. There are, however, potentially complex constitutional questions, because McIver claims that it fulfilled its functions as a member of the congress when the incident occurred and certain immunities are granted to federal legislators.
