From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

The Justice Department charges a Democratic member of Congress with assault and impeding federal agents after a tussle outside an immigration detention facility in Newark, New Jersey.

Plus, the Secret Service interviews former FBI director James Comey,

over an Instagram post of Seychelles spelling out the numbers 8647.

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

We're joined today by my colleagues, editorial board member Manet Uquay

Uquay Barua, and columnist Kim Strassel. On Monday, the interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey,

Alina Haba, announced federal charges against Congresswoman La Monica McIver, stemming from a confrontation

that happened on May 9th at Delaney Hall, a thousand-bed

detention facility used by immigration and customs enforcement. Newark Mayor Raz Baraka was

arrested in that scrum, but those charges are now being dropped. Yet Haba alleged in a statement

that Representative La Monica McIver assaulted,

impeded, and interfered with law enforcement in violation of federal law. She said that that conduct

cannot be overlooked. Here is McIver responding on an interview on CNN. The charges are absurd.

You know, it's ridiculous.

I was there to do my job along with my other colleagues.

We have done this before.

This is our obligation to do.

It's in our job description to have oversight over a facility.

And the entire situation was escalated by ice.

Manet, we now, as of Tuesday, have this federal charging document.

What does it say exactly happened on May the 9th?

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