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The Democrat congresswoman accused of assaulting an ICE officer is facing years in prison if convicted, according to a statement from Alina Habba, interim U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey. Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver of New Jersey was caught on video in a skirmish with an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer when Democrats tried to barge into a detention facility in Newark. "Today a federal grand jury seated in Newark, New Jersey returned a three-count indictment charging U.S. Representative LaMonica McIver with forcibly impeding and interfering with federal law enforcement officers," said Habba in a statement on social...

🚨 #BREAKING: U.S. Attorney Alina Habba has officially CHARGED Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver with assaulting, impeding and interfering with law enforcement. This carries up to EIGHT YEARS in federal prison. LOCK HER UP AND PERP WALK! 🔥

Rep. McIver charged with impeding and assauIting federal law enforcement Congresswoman McIver charged with violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 111(a)(1) for assaulting, impeding and interfering with law enforcement.

JUST IN: US Attorney Alina Habba and the DOJ are set to announce CHARGES against Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver after she stormed the New Jersey ICE facility and threw hands with law enforcement - NJ Globe NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW.

US Attorney Alina Habba announced federal charges against Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver for assaulting ICE agents. “Today my office has charged Congresswoman McIver with violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 111(a)(1) for assaulting, impeding and interfering with law enforcement,” Alina Habba said on Monday evening. ... ICE bodycam footage showed Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver verbally abusing and physically assaulting federal agents at a detention facility in Newark. Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver (woman in the red jacket) physically attacked ICE agents at Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, on Friday. Democrat members of Congress and Newark Mayor...

A magistrate judge warned US Attorney Alina Habba and ICE against ‘out-of-court’ statements about the case against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka during a hearing on Friday. Public statements made by Alina Habba and ICE spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin following Ras Baraka’s arrest are at issue. The Mayor of Newark was arrested for criminal trespass on Friday after storming the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility. ..... Snip..... On Friday, Alina Habba said Mayor Baraka was taken into custody after he ignored multiple warnings from DHS agents. “The Mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, committed trespass and ignored multiple warnings from Homeland Security Investigations...

President Trump’s 2024 campaign is nothing like 2016. This time, he’s not walking in blind. He’s learned from past mistakes—and one of the biggest lessons was trusting Swamp creatures just because they pretended not to be lurking beneath the murky waters. A hard lesson—but one that many would argue has made him politically wiser. Now, as he gets settled back into the White House, he’s flanked on both sides by an America First posse, ready to take a sledgehammer to the chaos and confusion erected during Biden’s installation. Because honestly, the key to Making America Great Again starts with putting...

TRENTON, N.J. — President Donald Trump on Monday named his one-time defense attorney and current White House counselor Alina Habba to be the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey. Habba, who turns 41 Tuesday, takes over the interim post from John Giordano, whom the president said he's naming to be the U.S. ambassador for the southwestern African country of Namibia. A partner in a small New Jersey law firm near Trump’s Bedminster golf course, Habba served as a senior adviser for Trump's political action committee, defended him in court in several civil lawsuits and acted as a spokesperson last year...

To those demanding immediate arrests, Habba urges patience, explaining that the process requires thorough evidence review to ensure accountability is achieved properly. She vows they will handle it the right way.

Alina Habba has ruled herself out of being Donald Trump's announcement despite speculation she was the front-runner. The firebrand attorney was thought to be a top contender for one of the most high-profile jobs in the administration. But on Thursday morning, she announced that she withdrew her name from consideration.

Mark Cuban, you can go to hell. Trump 2024!

Donald Trump has lashed out at a Fox News host after she disputed a claim by Alina Habba, the former president's lawyer, that President Joe Biden was behind the hush-money case. In a post on Truth Social, Trump accused Fox News' Shannon Bream of being "naive" after she spoke with Habba Wednesday. In the interview, Habba—who is not representing Trump in the hush-money case—called the trial a "Biden show." Bream responded that the indictment against Trump, which was brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, was not a federal case.

Donald Trump has suggested he may choose a new lawyer to represent him when he appeals his damages verdict in a case brought against him by E. Jean Carroll. On Friday, a New York City jury ordered that the former president must pay $83.3 million in damages to Carroll for statements made in 2019. He said she was lying about allegations he sexually assaulted her inside a Manhattan department store dressing room in the 1990s. That amount includes $7.3 million in compensatory damages, $11 million for reputational repair, and $65 million in punitive damages. *** The Republican was represented by...

After the first day of Michael Cohen’s testimony, President Donald Trump told reporters that he would be returning to court on Wednesday. In 2019, allegations made by disgraced lawyer Cohen spurred the attorney general’s office to investigate President Trump. At the center of the case are the Statements of Financial Condition (SFC) for the Trump Organization from 2011 to 2021. On Tuesday, Cohen said that he personally altered together several of those statements with Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg under the direction of his former boss. Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer and one-time executive vice president of the Trump Organization,...

Mark speaks with Alina Habba, lawyer for Donald Trump, about the politically motivated fraudulent case against Trump and the gag order being overturned.

Everything about the case in New York City against the Trump organization business operations is ridiculous. There are no victims. There was no fraud. All of the lenders did their own due diligence. All of the loans were paid back without issue and the statement of financial condition was factual and accurate. Additionally, the statute being used as the predicate for the case is a consumer fraud statute, intended to protect borrowers from predatory lenders. In the four corners of this case, Trump is the borrower, and the banks were the lenders. New York is flipping the statute to claim...

Wednesday was day two of the testimony of Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney of former President Donald Trump in his business fraud trial in the New York State Supreme Court. Trump attorney Alina Habba pulled out all the stops when it came to “impeaching” the former president’s disgruntled ex-employee’s credibility before the court. Cohen, who has been vocal in his criticism of his former boss did not seem to be having an easy time dealing with defense attorney Alina Habba, who had already laid down the law with Cohen on Tuesday about how the trial was going to go....

Democrats thought releasing the mugshot of former President Trump would hurt him in the polls. However, it only strengthened his chances of securing the GOP presidential nominee. "Thank you, Fani," Alina Habba, attorney and legal spokesman for Trump, said. During an interview with Newsmax, Habba condemned Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis's attempts to persecute Trump politically over his alleged attempt to turn over the 2020 election. The Trump attorney said Willis's decision to release the former president's mugshot was a "power play that got reversed on her." "They didn't need the mug shot," Habba said. "It was, I guess...

Alina Habba, attorney for former President Donald Trump and general counsel for the Save America PAC, says the Georgia charges belong in federal court. She told Newsmax on Wednesday morning that this was all "by design," and that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis "did it on purpose so that if he is president, he can't pardon himself if he's convicted. ... We will probably be asking for a removal to another venue and to move it to federal court." Unlike the president's three former indictments, this fourth indictment was handed up in a state court. Ms. Habba had made...

An attorney for former President Donald Trump was booted from the New York attorney general's case against Trump, and will now serve in a new role with a Trump-aligned political action committee. Alina Habba will take the lead in a new position for the Save America Leadership PAC, according to a press release on Friday. Habba is set to take over as the PAC’s legal spokesperson and general counsel while maintaining her position in assist Trump with “certain legal matters.” Trump’s communication director described the now-ex-general counsel as having performed “diligently” and “tirelessly” regarding the “many witch-hunt cases that have...