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Democratic members of Congress who were part of a scuffle with law enforcement officers at an ICE facility in New Jersey may face arrests, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed to Axios Saturday.

Why it matters: It would be a major escalation in the Trump administration’s arrests of politicians and other public servants, including the mayor of Newark and a judge in Milwaukee.

  • DHS is accusing the House Democrats of assaulting law enforcement. The lawmakers say they were the ones who were assaulted.
  • The lawmakers involved in the incident: Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.), Rob Menendez (D-N.J.) and LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.).
  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.auBanned from communityEnglish
    119·
    1 day ago

    Because the law isn’t always right

    Well the law is what is legal. If people break the law, they should be charged. This is hardly a new concept. You don’t think lawbreakers should be charged?

    • SpaceShort@feddit.uk
      2·
      8 hours ago

      The law has no inherent moral value. It requires at the very least democratic legitimacy to do so, and even that is subject to conditions.

    • Doom@ttrpg.network
      61·
      17 hours ago

      No I don’t because if they were this country wouldn’t exist.

      It is American to resist bullshit laws. The founding fathers made that clear so no you’re wrong now sit down and shut up

    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
      61·
      23 hours ago

      You’re not wrong, but that idealism assumes that the law is just and supported by due process and the writ of habeus corpus…not the desires of an unchecked tyrant.

      We are currently in the latter.

      It’s very concerning that people like you are unable to foresee the consequences of that.

      • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.auBanned from communityEnglish
        110·
        16 hours ago

        So when I said:

        If they broke the law arrest them and charge them. If not, leave them alone.

        Where did I say leave out due process?

        Also there is no “unchecked tyrant” lol. Literally everything the US President is trying to do is being “checked” and litigated against.