Rep. LaMonica McIver (New Jersey) will be charged with assaulting, resisting, and impeding law enforcement officers, said Alina Habba, the interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey. In a statement, Habba also announced her office would dismiss the trespassing charge it filed against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka (D) over the same incident, though she did not explain the reasoning behind that decision.
The highly unusual decision — to charge a sitting member of Congress after a heated clash in which no one was injured — follows the equally
unusual arrest of a local judge in Wisconsin this month on obstruction charges for allegedly helping an undocumented migrant in her courtroom evade U.S. immigration authorities.