Overview

• Tom Homan referenced Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s warning of “consequences” when he appeared on Fox News shortly after federal charges were filed.
• Prosecutors indicted Rep. LaMonica McIver on two counts of assaulting, resisting and impeding officers during a May 9 visit to ICE’s Delaney Hall in Newark.
• Reps. Rob Menendez and Bonnie Watson Coleman joined McIver and Mayor Ras Baraka in the protest, which DHS officials say disrupted a detainee transfer.
• House Democratic leaders condemned the prosecution as political retaliation and defended lawmakers’ constitutional right to conduct unannounced inspections.
• Critics including Rep. Dan Goldman flagged flaws in the charging documents and McIver called the case “purely political” and a distortion of her actions.