{"id":12876,"date":"2025-09-03T18:46:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-republicans-help-kill-effort-to-censure-rep-lamonica-mciver\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T18:46:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:46:58","slug":"house-republicans-help-kill-effort-to-censure-rep-lamonica-mciver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-republicans-help-kill-effort-to-censure-rep-lamonica-mciver\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republicans help kill effort to censure Rep. LaMonica McIver"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Some House Republicans joined every Democrat in voting to sink an effort to censure Rep. LaMonica McIver over her involvement in a chaotic May scuffle outside an immigration detention center.<\/p>\n

Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) forced the vote to formally reprimand McIver and remove her from her position on the House Homeland Security Committee, a handful of his GOP colleagues had little appetite for moving forward with the punishment. <\/p>\n

Five Republicans \u2014 Reps. Don Bacon and Mike Flood of Nebraska, Dave Joyce and Mike Turner of Ohio and David Valadao of California \u2014 joined every Democrat in voting to table the measure, while two Republicans \u2014 Reps. Andrew Garbarino of New York and Nathaniel Moran of Texas \u2014 voted present.<\/p>\n

Several Democratic officials, including McIver and Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman and Rob Menendez, were attempting to conduct an oversight visit of the Newark, New Jersey, facility when federal agents arrested the city\u2019s mayor.<\/p>\n

Federal prosecutors abandoned a charge<\/a> against the mayor, but acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba then charged McIver<\/a> with offenses that come with a maximum sentence of 17 years in prison. Habba accused McIver of slamming a federal agent with her forearm, \u201cforcibly\u201d grabbing him and using her forearms to strike another agent.<\/p>\n

McIver denied wrongdoing, with her lawyers explaining that an \u201cunnecessary, reckless, and disproportionate escalation\u201d by federal agents led to \u201cchaos and a serious scuffle involving a great deal of physical contact.\u201d<\/p>\n

The McIver censure resolution prompted Democrats to threaten retaliation, with some members introducing a measure earlier Wednesday to censure Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) over a litany of ethics allegations<\/a>. Censure resolution and other discipline-related matters can be fast-tracked to a House vote, but it’s not clear whether Democrats will now withdraw the Mills resolution now that the McIver censure failed.<\/p>\n

“I’m going to have some conversations with my colleagues, with Ms. McIver in particular, and some of our leadership, and we’ll make that determination,” said Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.), who introduced the Mills resolution.<\/p>\n

Ry Rivard contributed to this report\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some House Republicans joined every Democrat in voting to sink an effort to censure Rep. LaMonica McIver over her involvement in a chaotic May scuffle outside an immigration detention center. Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) forced the vote to formally reprimand McIver and remove her from her position on the House Homeland Security Committee, a handful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}