If there’s ever a time you might want to avoid having a baby, it’s when you’re staring down nearly two decades behind bars.
Despite facing a potential prison sentence of up to 17 years for assaulting federal agents, Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver just announced that she is pregnant.
In a defiant post on X, she said she decided to have a baby in spite of her legal troubles to prevent the Trump administration from taking “my joy or my future.”
Read what she had to say for yourself:
People might find it crazy that even though I’m facing 17 years in prison, I made the decision to get pregnant. But, at the end of the day, this is something I couldn’t let be consumed by this administration.
I refuse to let them take my joy or my future.
pic.twitter.com/Tkxwanucbi
— Rep. LaMonica McIver (@RepLaMonica)
September 29, 2026
Hmm, perhaps Rep. McIver should have considered her “joy and future” more before committing a serious, federal offense…
Folks on X have some words for her:
Women that are pregnant get jailed everyday. You commit a crime, you do the time.
— Med_1917 (@1917_med)
September 30, 2026
Why is your pregnancy amid the criminal charges a social media stunt accompanied with a photoshoot? Is anyone in your office normal?
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo)
September 29, 2026
You put your hands on law enforcement agents.
No one is taking your joy.
You surrendered it.
— The
FOO (@PolitiBunny)
September 29, 2026
Getting pregnant to sway justice is a whole new level of sick.
— George (@BehizyTweets)
September 29, 2026
Rep. McIver is expected to give birth next month, on October 16th, and is also up for re-election in November.
From the
Inquirer:
U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver hasn’t put her life on hold to fight what she sees as totally unfounded charges by the Trump administration that she supposedly assaulted a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer during a protest last year.
Instead, the first-term Democratic congresswoman is expecting her second child next month, she’s up for reelection in November, and because of Congress’ backward policies on parental leave (as in, there are none), she continues to put in long hours representing New Jersey’s 10th Congressional District, which includes her hometown of Newark.
Lurking in the background, however, is the knowledge that if convicted on two charges of assaulting an ICE officer, she could be sentenced to as much as 17 years in prison.
It’s way more than most people in her situation could handle.
McIver’s inner strength is next level.
She is running for reelection on Nov. 3 while fighting efforts by the Trump administration to make an example out of her. McIver is also repping her constituents in Newark in Washington, D.C., all while caring for — and expanding — her family.
Her journey to motherhood hasn’t been easy. McIver, 40, has spoken openly about her yearslong struggles with fibroids, her use of in vitro fertilization (IVF), and her opposition to President Donald Trump’s merciless immigration enforcement campaign. She hopes her candor resonates with women who also are trying to balance career, pregnancy, and motherhood.
Meanwhile, she is scheduled to give birth to her second child on Oct. 16. After she delivers, McIver will become one of fewer than 20 members of Congress ever to have done so.
My jaw dropped during the interview in which McIver informed me that as a member of Congress, she isn’t entitled to maternity leave. Postpartum, McIver also won’t be able to cast votes for legislation remotely or by proxy.
In a separate X post, she showed a video of herself packing her baby bag for when she gives birth in a hospital:
The time has come! I am packing up my baby bag to go to the hospital! Here's what I'm bringing…
pic.twitter.com/CdfTt5El45
— Rep. LaMonica McIver (@RepLaMonica)
September 29, 2026
As you may recall, Rep. McIver was charged with assault after physically and verbally attacking federal agents outside an ICE detention facility in Newark, NJ.
Bodycam footage captured the incident:
BREAKING: I have obtained exclusive ICE officer body cam footage clearly showing Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver verbally and physically assaulting federal agents in New Jersey after illegally entering an ICE detention facility.
In the video you can see indisputable evidence of…
pic.twitter.com/msAQBz23oJ
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson)
May 10, 2025
BREAKING: I have obtained exclusive ICE officer body cam footage clearly showing Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver verbally and physically assaulting federal agents in New Jersey after illegally entering an ICE detention facility.
In the video you can see indisputable evidence of Congresswoman McIver (in the red jacket) punch, push and hit a federal agent, refusing to follow the ICE officers orders and impeding in a lawful arrest.
In the body cam footage you can also watch Rep. McIver verbally threaten to “put hands” on the federal agents. “I touch whoever I want mother fu****!” Rep. McIver then threatens to destroy the ICE officers careers, “You will pay!” before descending into a profanity-laced rampage tirade.
All of these actions are flatly illegal under 18 U.S. Code § 111 and carry heavy fines and prison sentences.
A spokesperson for Department of Homeland Security has confirmed to me that “there will be more investigations and arrests.”
“If you assault a law enforcement officer you will answer to the law.”
I have reached out to Speaker Johnson’s Office for an official statement on disciplinary action from the House.
Rep. McIver’s case has been going on for quite awhile.
Last year, a federal judge refused to toss out the charges.
And, more recently, an appeals court rejected Rep. McIver’s immunity defense.
The New Jersey Monitor has the latest on her case:
A federal appeals court Wednesday largely rejected Rep. LaMonica McIver’s bid to have criminal charges against her thrown out, ruling that two of the three counts she faces over a confrontation with federal agents outside a Newark immigration detention center are not shielded by congressional immunity.
In a 49-page filing, a divided three-judge U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals panel affirmed a lower court’s decision that allowed prosecutors to proceed on the first two counts of the indictment, which accuse McIver of striking and grabbing federal agents outside Delaney Hall in May 2025. The court sent the third count back to the lower court for further review.
McIver, a Democrat who represents the 10th District, had argued the Constitution’s speech or debate clause, which shields lawmakers from prosecution for legislative acts, protected her conduct that day. But the majority’s ruling says McIver’s physical contact with agents was “unambiguously non-legislative.”
“In sum, Count One neither charges Congresswoman McIver for an act that is legislative in nature nor requires that she answer for any legislative act,” it says.
Two of the judges on the panel — one a Donald Trump appointee, the other named by Joe Biden — agreed that McIver is also not shielded from prosecution for the second count of her indictment. The third judge, named by Bill Clinton, disagreed and said he would have returned that count to the lower court for further review.
All three judges agreed that the third count should be reviewed again by a lower-court judge because he did not properly assess its claims against McIver.
McIver in a statement said “this is not over.”
“I fundamentally believe that the court got it wrong here. To protect the people, their elected representatives must be authorized to conduct oversight of the executive branch without fear of retaliation. Today’s decision chills that authority and emboldens the Trump administration to continue persecuting our most vulnerable communities, those who try to defend them, and anyone who dares hold the president or his lackeys accountable,” she said.
What do you think?
Is pregnancy an excuse to avoid accountability?
Continue reading...
[ H/T WLT Report ]
pic.twitter.com/CdfTt5El45
