A member of Congress from New Jersey, LaMonica McIver, a Democrat, has failed to get charges against her dropped.
She was indicted by a grand jury and pleaded not guilty to counts of assaulting, resisting, impeding and interfering with a federal officer.
A judge has refused her arguments that she’s immune, or that her case is “selective enforcement” for charges stemming from her actions at an ICE facility in Newark when she and other leftists arrived and demanded access, because she was exercising “oversight.”
Facing potential punishment if she’s convicted of hitting a federal agent, grabbing him and striking a second officer during a scuffle, she lashed out against Department of Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem and President Donald Trump during a hearing Thursday.
Here are her comments blasting everyone not on her side, and insisting on a yes or no answer from Noem to a question to which a yes or no answer wouldn’t make sense.
Noem’s response? “You wouldn’t stop talking crazy.”
McIver illogically demanded a yes or no from Noem to an either-or question: “Is Trump embarrassed by your tenure or is this exactly the kind of God-awful leadership he wants at DHS? Yes or No?”
McIver then shouted loudly “Reclaiming my time” over and over as Noem tried to explain, “Ma’am, we’ve already conducted more oversight visits…”
Here are McIver’s words: “Um, no. No, no. It’s a yes or no, yes or no— Okay, Secretary Noem, this is my time to talk, not your time to talk. I reclaim my time. I reclaim my time. I reclaim my time. Here, I reclaim my time. Secretary Noem, DHS is breaking the law, hiding information from Congress and shutting out oversight. So, let me ask you, how can the American people trust your department with you at the helm with this kind of behavior?”
In light of McIver’s own misguided conclusion that “DHS is breaking the law,” Noem said, “The American people absolutely trust this department to keep them safe, and we are showing that every day by the support we get across the country, the amount of people that we’re recruiting to all of our—”
Then McIver, with her own legal charges still pending, insisted that DHS was being used to “target” members of Congress, as an abuse of power.
Noem, whose response was drowned out with McIver talking over her, said, “Excuse me, would you say that again?”
“You would have heard me if you stopped talking and listened to my questions.”
Noem said, “You wouldn’t stop talking crazy.”
WND has reported on McIver’s legal troubles. She lost her bid to have those dropped because of “immunity” and because it was “selective enforcement.”
It was U.S. District Judge Jamel Semper who denied McIver’s motion to dismiss the case.
“The alleged criminal conduct did not occur during Defendant’s inspection of Delany Hall, instead it occurred during an inexplicable delay of Defendant’s oversight inspection. Although Defendant bears no fault in the delay, her alleged intervention into the Mayor’s questionable arrest had no cognizable connection to any legislative function protected by the Speech or Debate Clause,” the judge ruled.
“Defendant’s active participation in the alleged conduct removes her acts from the safe harbor of mere oversight. Lawfully or unlawfully, Defendant actively engaged in conduct unrelated to her oversight responsibilities and congressional duties,” he wrote.
According to the Hill, federal law allows Congress to conduct oversight visits of ICE facilities, but prosecutors said McIver, after arriving, sought to block the arrest of Democrat Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, who is not a lawmaker and was ordered to leave. McIver tried to restrain and “slammed her forearm” into one officer as she and others circled the mayor, the indictment charges.
Judge allows prosecution of New Jersey Democratic Rep McIver on assault charge to proceed https://t.co/vNfIb4cZQy
— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) November 13, 2025
Yikes!
A federal judge just refused to dismiss assault charges against New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver, noting she “actively engaged in conduct unrelated to her oversight responsibilities and congressional duties.”
No one is above the law. pic.twitter.com/K5WERgLoKT
— Gina Milan (@ginamilan_) November 13, 2025
JUST IN: Biden Judge Refuses to Toss Federal Criminal Charges Against Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver https://t.co/I9AxVIHtUu
— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) November 13, 2025
‘Political retaliation’: Judge won’t let ICE-storming congresswoman off the hook
