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Body cam footage from the storming of Delaney Hall shows Rep. LaMonica McIver punching, pushing, and bashing law enforcement outside the detention facility for illegal immigrants. McIver had attended the facility on May 9, along with Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman and Rob Menendez, along with Newark Mayor Ras Baraka. Baraka was arrested, and now McIver has had charges filed against her by US Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba.
Habba announced the charges, alleging that McIver was guilty of "assaulting, impeding, and interfering with law enforcement." It's hard to argue with the body cam footage that shows McIver, in a red blazer among a sea of earth tones, getting violent with law enforcement. "I take my obligations as US Attorney seriously," Habba said. "I understand the responsibility that comes with my position, and I will work diligently to uphold the law and deliver justice to the people of New Jersey."
As for the charges against Baraka, she said, "After extensive consideration, we have agreed to dismiss Mayor Baraka's misdemeanor charge of trespass for the sake of moving forward." She said further that she invited him to tour Delaney Hall and that "the government has nothing to hide at this facility." She said she'd accompany him.
Baraka is basically a nepo baby of the far-left culture set. His father is Amiri Baraka, a famed black nationalist poet and dramatist who began life as LeRoi Jones before taking up the name Amiri Baraka after the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965. He abandoned not only his name but his white, Jewish wife and their two children and took up with younger woman Sylvia Robinson. They moved to Harlem for a bit before heading back to NJ. She took his name and changed her first name to Amina and went on to co-found Sugar Hill Records. Ras, their son, was featured on Lauryn Hill's iconic 1998 album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill when he was about 28 years old.
One of Jones/Baraka's most famous plays was Dutchman, in which a black man and a white woman meet on a subway in New York, she flirting with him, making racially charged comments, etc., before he makes a whole speech about oppression and she stabs him. The play was controversial when it came out in 1964, and it's pretty much still controversial now. It premiered Off-Broadway at The Cherry Lane and won an Obie, the highest award for an Off-Broadway show.
This morning, all the big papers have their stories out about Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's book Original Sin, a detailed account of the Joe Biden mental decline and cover-up. Suddenly, it's cool to say the former president was incapable of doing his job, even though for four years any conservative who said it was called a conspiracy theorist, a liar, their outlet fake news. But it was all true, and now, like the Hunter Biden laptop story, all of the big guys now have to admit that it's true.
The New York Times says the book is a "damning portrait of an enfeebled Biden protected by his inner circle." WaPo says the book portrays Biden as "an elderly, egotistical president shielded from reality by a slavish coterie of loyalists." The Wall Street Journal calls the whole enterprise "a conspiracy in plain view." I think they're all just exposing themselves as liars who are just as bad as the Biden administration, if not worse, because they upheld the lies and ran cover for the liars while trying to discredit anyone who questioned them. There was just no transparency.
Chicago's mayor, meanwhile, is facing a DOJ investigation over claims that he's made hiring decisions solely on the basis of race. "Our investigation is based on information suggesting that you have made hiring decisions solely on the basis of race. In your remarks made yesterday at the Apostolic Church of God in Woodlawn, you 'highlighted[ed] the number of Black officials in [your] administration,'" the letter from Harmeet Dhillon stated. Johnson had touted the many high-ranking positions in his administration held by black men and women.
"You then said that you were 'laying' these positions 'out' to 'ensure that our people get a chance to grow their business,'" Dhillon went on. "Considering these remarks, I have authorized an investigation to determine whether the City of Chicago is engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination as set forth above. If this kind of hiring decisions are being made for top-level positions in your administration, then it begs the question whether such decisions are also being made for lower-level positions."
Prayers up for Scott Adams, who announced yesterday that he has stage 4 prostate cancer and doesn't expect to live through the summer.
Here's what's on my desk today:
DOJ files charges against Rep LaMonica McIver for ‘assaulting, impeding and interfering with law enforcement’
“That conduct cannot be overlooked by the chief federal law enforcement official in the State of New Jersey.”
MAGA baby savings accounts part of pro-family ‘One, Big, Beautiful Bill’
“Essentially, it’s a 401 K for a newborn baby.”
Federal judge rules DOGE, Trump admin were ‘unlawful’ in takeover of US Institute of Peace
USIP in 2023 argued that the Taliban should not ban opium cultivation because it would deprive opium poppy farmers of their income.
SCOTUS allows Trump to revoke ‘temporary protected status’ for migrants in 8-1 decision pending appeal
The ruling was an 8-1 decision.