Monday, June 2, 2025

While I Was Gone, US Rep. McIver Was Released With Essentially No Conditions, On The Strength Of Her Own Word.


Again while I was MIA, we got a clear sense of how little the able federal NJ judge thinks of Alina Haba's purported criminal case, against a sitting member of Congress, while she was conducting oversight of mistreatment of human beings (via ICE and DHS actions) at a contract prison. She has been set essentially completely free, with no bond -- just her signature -- that she will return.

She is free to travel the US -- without any restriction. Should she have official duties that take her out of the country, she should notify pretrial services and the court. That is all. What a weak sauce pile of purported felonies / BS Ms. Haba has cooked up. [And the able judge knows it.]

Other than the notice before heading to the EU -- she is free to go.

And over the weekend, in another unrelated case, the for profit private prison company running that Newark (detention of undocumented people) facility where she was arrested. . . has motioned a judge, to be called (preposterously!) a derivative "sovereign" -- like a quasi-governmental entity -- so it may avoid suits for violating the rights of people who are un-, or under-documented. In fact, the owner of the GEO Group is a huge Tangerine donor, and he wants the "immunity" Tangerine enjoys, directly. And this is all after Trump awarded him a highly profitable federal contract to house ICE and DHS detainees. Damn.

That will NEVER happen. These goons assaulted the Mayor of Newark, after refusing to accept a notice of non-compliance, as a private for profit business, inside the Mayor's city. Then they arrested the Congresswoman for defending the Mayor's rights, before the contract rent-a-cops. That CEO is going to pay out large damage awards -- for interfering with the Mayor's duties (and Congressional oversight).

These guys (at least pretend to) understand almost nothing of the bedrock laws, over the last three-quarters of a century. Just. . . Damn -- out, and onward -- resolutely.

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