LaMonica McIver has bigger problems than the law: namely, whether she'll keep her seat. McIver, as you might have heard, is facing charges of assaulting, impeding and interfering with law enforcement after she was caught on video assailing Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers during a political stunt earlier this month.

The Justice Department does not appear to be bringing charges against McIver today; the timing of when it will do so is unclear. The

Prosecutors allege that McIver, who appeared in Wednesday's proceeding virtually from Washington, pushed and grabbed Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations agents while trying to stop the arrest of Baraka, who has alleged the city has been improperly denied opportunity to inspect the privately run facility.

A federal magistrate judge lectured federal prosecutors for withdrawing a trespassing charge against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka after he was arrested during a protest at an ICE facility earlier this month,