Now to a development in the Trump DOJ's case against Democratic Congresswoman La Monica McIver of New Jersey,

who's been charged with two counts of assault. It's part of an emerging strategy from the Justice

Department which is undoing Biden-era policies and pursuing some of President Trump's perceived political

adversaries. William Brigham has more.

Appearing virtually in her first court appearance, since the department brought charges

against her this week, Representative McIver was released without bail today with a hearing

set for later this month. She is charged with assaulting, resisting, and impeding an officer

after a visit to an immigration detention

facility in New Jersey turned into a scuffle. Members of Congress are permitted to conduct

unannounced oversight visits. So to discuss this and more, we are joined again by Carrie Johnson.

She is the Justice Correspondent at NPR. Carrie, so good to see you,

as always. So about these assault charges against Representative McIrber, she was trying to stop

the arrest, she says, of Newark's mayor, who was there also protesting at this ICE detention

facility. She's denied the accusation, said that they're basically trumped up. She's denied the accusations, said that they're

basically trumped up. Here's what she said on the cable news this morning. It's crazy because

there's so many other crimes and things to be focused on and definitely not to be focused on a

congresswoman or Congress members who were there just to do an oversight visit. We were not there to

bus detainees out of prison. We've heard that come out from the DOJ. We were there for an oversight

visit.

How unusual is it to prosecute a member of Congress like this?

In my experience, it's very unusual to bring this kind of federal prosecution, serious federal

prosecution against a sitting lawmaker for something that doesn't involve financial misconduct,

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