Democrats shocked, SHOCKED that breaking the law leads to their arrest
By Jonathan Turley
Published May 20, 2025, 12:14 p.m. ET
Across the country, a new defense is being heard in state and federal courtrooms. From Democratic members of Congress to judges to city council members, officials claim that their duties include obstructing the official functions of the federal government.
It is a type of liberal license that excuses almost any crime in the name of combating what Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz called the “modern-day Gestapo” of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The latest claimant of this license is Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ), who was charged with assaulting, resisting, and impeding law enforcement officers during a protest at Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in Newark, New Jersey.
McIver is shown on video forcing her way into the facility and striking and shoving agents in her path.
Elected officials joined a mob in briefly overwhelming security and breaching the fence barrier after a bus was allowed through the entrance. Federal officials were able to quickly force back the incursion.
McIver and House Democrats insisted that McIver forcing her way into the facility might be trespass and assault for other citizens, but she was merely exercising “legislative oversight.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) declared, “You lay a finger on someone – on Bonnie Watson Coleman or any of the representatives that were there – you lay a finger on them, we’re going to have a problem.”
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