Overview
- McIver filed an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit after U.S. District Judge Jamel Semper refused to dismiss most charges and reserved a ruling on one count.
- She faces three counts of assaulting, resisting, impeding, or interfering with federal officers tied to a May visit to Newark’s Delaney Hall, and she has pleaded not guilty.
- Prosecutors say she slammed a forearm into one agent, grabbed him, and struck another during a confrontation outside the facility.
- Just The News reports prosecutors also allege she tried to block the removal and arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka after he was ordered to leave the site.
- McIver calls the case baseless and says she was exercising oversight authority, while scrutiny of the prosecution increased after acting U.S. attorney Alina Habba resigned following court findings that her appointment was unlawful.