Monday, 09 June 2025

NJ Judge Warns US Attorney Alina Habba After The Arrest of Newark’s Democrat Mayor

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There are two groups of Democrats currently under the spotlight for their actions at a New Jersey ICE detention facility last Friday.

One group has been threatened with arrest, but it remains to be seen if they will be.

In the other group is one individual, Newark’s dangerously ideological Democrat Mayor, Ras Baraka — who was arrested over the incident.

And now, a New Jersey Federal Magistrate Judge has issued a warning for the US Attorney for that district and ICE Officials relative to Baraka’s arrest.

We have been covering both the above mentioned groups — the arrested Mayor, and those members of Congress with potential for being arrested — as the situation has developed.

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But Trump Administration Officials have riled up the local judiciary (what’s new there?) on the heels of Baraka’s arrest, creating a new angle of this developing story.

At contention are statements made primarily by the Deputy Secretary of the Dept. of Homeland Defense, and Alina Habba — the US Attorney for the District of New Jersey.

Yesterday we reported on AOC’s threats against the Trump Administration for the potential arrests of sitting members of Congress.

And in that report, we highlighted the Dep. Sec. of DHS, Tricia McLaughlin, who appeared on Fox News and set the record straight in regards to AOC’s threats against the potential arrest of Democrat Congress members for attacking federal agents at the ICE detention facility.

Here’s that clip:

That hard-hitting, no-nonsense rebuff against the false narratives being spread by the Democrat members of Congress is part of what drew the Magistrate’s warning.

That, and the always straight-shooting US Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Alina Habba, who pushed back against Baraka’s claims that he was arrested illegally, and for political purposes.

Habba, who President Trump nominated for her current position after serving as his anti-lawfare lawyer over the past several years, first took to her X account to respond to Baraka’s claims of injustice:

Here is the full text of her post from last Friday which she shared shortly after the incident occurred, and Baraka was taken in to custody:

The Mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, committed trespass and ignored multiple warnings from Homeland Security Investigations to remove himself from the ICE detention center in Newark, New Jersey this afternoon. He has willingly chosen to disregard the law. That will not stand in this state. He has been taken into custody. NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW.

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A few hours later, Habba appeared on Fox News.

The Fox News Host presented the allegations that had already surfaced immediately following the incident — and by that, I mean the false narratives cooked up in direct conflict with all the video evidence.

Here’s the clip of Habba’s statement on Mayor Baraka’s arrest:

And finally, on Monday, Habba issued another statement on her official X account.

Here is that post from May 9th:

And here is the full text of her statement in that post, for easier reading:

My office is undertaking a thorough investigation in coordination with our Federal Agency partners of what transpired on Friday at Delaney Hall. As is true of every investigation this office handles, all available evidence will be thoroughly reviewed prior to making a determination on how to proceed.  I do not take these matters lightly.

Those statements apparently added up to a rebuke from the District Magistrate Judge in New Jersey.

A virtual hearing was held prior to Mayor Baraka’s release from custody following his arrest on Friday.

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During that hearing, the NJ District Magistrate handling the initial proceeding agreed with Baraka’s attorney that Trump Officials should be warned against talking derogatorily in public about Mayor Baraka.

After all… it is an election year in New Jersey, and Baraka is running for Governor.

US Magistrate Andre Espinosa then issued his warning, effectively putting the Trump Officials at the center of this case on notice, according to reporting by Politico:

Before Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was released from custody on Friday, a federal magistrate quickly determined he was not a flight risk and cautioned federal officials against making out-of-court statements about the mayor, who is also running for New Jersey governor, according to a newly-released transcript of the extraordinary virtual hearing.

During the 18-minute videoconference, Baraka’s attorney Raymond Brown asked [U.S. Magistrate André M.] Espinosa to warn Trump administration officials against making derogatory public statements about his client.

Earlier in the day, interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba had posted on social media that Baraka had “willingly chosen to disregard the law” before he was arrested at the immigration detention center he was protesting and seeking to inspect along with three members of New Jersey’s congressional delegation.

Espinosa said to the extent anyone had made such comments, he would “caution them to heed carefully to the rules of professional conduct” and “boundaries of propriety for public comment related to an ongoing investigation and/or prosecution.”

Suddenly, with the roles reversed, the Democrats and their judicial lackeys now want the rule of law followed to the “T”.

Even though for four years they slandered and mocked President Trump and anyone allied with him while there were ongoing court cases.

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And all that was irrespective of the fact that he was running a reelection campaign for President.

God forbid the Mayor of Newark gets called out for ACTUALLY BREAKING THE LAW while he’s running for Governor of New Jersey.

In fact, Mayor Baraka has benefited politically from this stunt (just as we reported yesterday would be the case) according to a story from the Semafor news group:

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka’s arrest at an ICE detention center is jolting New Jersey’s Democratic gubernatorial primary, galvanizing national Democrats. It is already testing his theory that the party’s voters want to pick fights that moderates want to avoid.

In the state, where Democrats will pick their nominee for governor on June 10, the scene of Baraka being pulled away by ICE agents has burnished his image as an anti-Trump warrior. In Washington, the Trump administration’s defense of the arrest — and its suggestion that it might also arrest members of Congress who tried to prevent his arrest on Friday — has become the latest source of resistance outrage.

“They know better than to go down that road,” House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries told reporters on Tuesday. “We’re not going to be intimidated by their tactics.”

The local impact of the arrest was clear all weekend, as Baraka’s five rivals condemned his brief detention, and the potential use of the nearly 1,200-bed Delaney Hall facility for processing non-citizens detained by ICE. At Monday night’s candidate forum on NJ Spotlight News, Baraka argued that his direct action had been more “effective,” than the rhetoric of the other Democratic candidates: Rep. Josh Gottheimer had used AI images of himself boxing Trump in a TV ad; Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop had talked about denying a tax break to Jared Kushner’s family business.

“That’s what people need now — they need leadership,” Baraka said. “They don’t need people to acquiesce, to hide in the middle, to run under this veil of ‘I’m working with the President of the United States.’”

Through a surface lens, this could be chalked up to just another day of Democrat vs the Trump Administration with immigration policies serving as the backdrop.

But with New Jersey’s Govenor race heating up — and Ras Baraka’s known adherence to the violent political tactics of Louis Farrakhan — this could shape up to be a state race with national implications.

Particularly if Ras Baraka has any more attention-grabbing political stunts up his sleeve along the lines of the Louis Farrakhan sermon in which Baraka featured prominently (and can be seen introducing, and applauding the famous race-baiters violent message).

Check out this story we brought you just two months ago, and Ras Baraka’s part in this ICE detention facility will begin to make much more sense:

CAUGHT: Top Democrat Cheers Racial Violence, Gives STANDING OVATION at Mention of White “Demons”

The temptation is to watch the normalizing of dangerous rhetoric coming from people like Hakeem Jeffries, AOC, and Ras Baraka... and allow ourselves to be lulled in to complacency.

But this sort of speech has consequences.

Sometimes, those consequences manifest in the form of a dustup and a few arrests outside of an ICE detention facility.

But other times, they may manifest in increasingly dangerous ways, including assassination attempts on the lives of political figures.

This isn't business -- or politics -- as usual.

This sort of 'grandstanding' as Alina Habba characterized it is the sort of thing that takes a divided society from a point of division, to a point of full conflict.

The flashpoints are many, with Democrats having virtually no POLICY points or SUCCESSES to build upon.

And if people like Ras Baraka, AOC, and Hakeem Jeffries continue pouring emotionally-charged political gasoline on those sparks in lieu of anything POSITIVE to put forwardy, sooner or later, something is likely to explode.

What's your opinion?

 

This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport.

View the original article here.


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