Magistrate Judge André Espinosa of U.S. District Court reprimanded federal prosecutors in New Jersey before agreeing to ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said federal prosecutors him tried to “humiliate and degrade” him by making him give his fingerprints ...

Tom Martello writes a regular column about the 2025 race for New Jersey governor. Brent Johnson writes the subscriber-only newsletter What Makes Jersey Run. They combined forces in the aftermath of ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested at the Delaney Hall ICE detention center and charged with trespassing while visiting the ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was cleared, while Rep. LaMonica McIver was charged by D.A. Alina Habba over an early May ICE clash ...

The Department of Justice also announced it was dropping a trespass charge against the city’s mayor stemming from the same ...

Interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba alleged that Baraka "committed trespass and ignored multiple warnings" to leave the ICE detention center on Friday ...

The mayor has been in conflict with immigration officials ever since the privately owned facility opened in Newark.

The prosecution of McIver is a rare federal criminal case against a sitting member of Congress for allegations other than ...

Congressional Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.) was also charged with assault Monday night following a visit to a newly opened immigration detention center in Newark.

FILE - Newark mayor and gubernatorial candidate Ras Baraka speaks to reporters after a protest in front of of Delaney Hall, the proposed site of an immigrant detention center, in Newark, N.J ...

NEWARK, N.J. -- Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested Friday at a federal immigration detention center where he has been protesting its opening this week. He was released hours later and told ...