Republicans REVOLT in shocking move to kill censure of Democrat who attacked ICE agent
By
VICTORIA CHURCHILL , US POLITICAL REPORTER
Published: 19:07 EDT, 3 September 2025 | Updated: 20:34 EDT, 3 September 2025
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ill-censure-Democrat-attacked-ICE-agent.html/
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A Democratic congresswoman was saved from a career-shaming embarrassment by seven of her Republican colleagues.
Members of the U.S. House decided not to censure Representative LaMonica McIver, who serves New Jersey's 10th
Congressional District, due to a rare breakaway of
GOP votes from the party line.
McIver is currently facing federal charges for storming an ICE facility in her home state of
New Jersey earlier this summer. She has asked for the charges to be dismissed.
The congresswoman has pleaded not guilty to three counts of assaulting, resisting, impeding, and interfering with federal officials related to actions in the ICE facility skirmish.
'If House Republicans think they can make me run scared, they're wrong,' McIver noted in a statement issued Tuesday before the vote.
After the attempt to censure her failed, McIver posted on X that the move 'was a baseless, partisan effort to shut [her] up.
'I was not elected to play political games—I was elected to serve. I won’t back down. Not now. Not ever,' McIver added.
Louisiana Republican Congressman Clay Higgins (R-La.) forced a vote on the censure measure, and the action failed on the floor of the
House of Representatives with a vote of 215 to 207.
Nebraska Republican Don Bacon, who is not seeking reelection in the 2026 midterms, was one member to vote in support of McIver. Bacon told Axios after the vote to table the censure resolution that he thinks it's 'best to let Ethics Committee finish its report.'
Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., demanded the release of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka after his arrest while protesting outside Delaney Hall ICE detention facility, Friday, May 9, 2025, in Newark, N.J.
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) arrives for a House Republican conference meeting at the U.S. Capitol on May 6, 2025 in Washington, DC. House Republicans are meeting to discuss their reconciliation budget plan
McIver was engaged in a scuffle with law enforcemtn officers back in May afetr she was not alloed to enter an ICE facility in her home state of New Jersey
Mike Flood of Nebraska, David Joyce and Michael R. Turner of Ohio, and David Valadao of California also voted against the move to censure McIver. The two 'present' votes came from Andrew Garbarino of New York and Nathaniel Moran of Texas, two other Republicans.
Several Democrats also spoke out against even having the vote regarding McIver in the first place.
Progressive Democrat Pramila Jayapal of Washington State noted on X that the move was 'a ridiculous waste of time that Congress should be using to work for the American people.'
Georgia Democrat Lucy McBath added that McIver was 'sent by the people of New Jersey's 10th to be their voice, and has done so fearlessly. The political targeting of her is a clear attempt to give more power to this President's agenda. She won’t back down, and neither will we.'
McIver was charged by Trump ally Alina Habba, who was serving as the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey on a temporary basis. Habba has yet to be confirmed to the post on a permanent basis and previously was Trump's personal lawyer.
Habba's appointment was always temporary and subject to
Senate confirmation but she quickly made headlines by pursuing politically explosive cases, including charges against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver, both Democrats.
McIver has also called out Trump for targeting liberal cities run by Black mayors during his
crime crackdown. Both Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson are Black.
The congresswoman told
Democrat election lawyer Marc Elias during a recent appearance on the Defending Democracy Podcast that the president's 'number one targets are cities that are led by black mayors.'
McIver also believes that Trump's rhetoric of 'Liberation Day' is rooted in racism.
'When he says, 'Oh,' you know, 'it's Liberation Day,' and all of these things, those are, you know, ways of him saying, 'Oh, it's white power,' McIver said earlier this month.
'Those are racist remarks,' the congresswoman told Elias.