Pam Bondi's Four Political Prosecutions

"Alina Habba announced the indictment of LaMonica McIver at 6:56PM on Tuesday night, an hour before polls in the New Jersey gubernatorial primary - in which Ras Baraka, referred to as Individual 1 in the indictment, ended up being the second-highest vote-getter - closed. The timing was dictated by a hearing scheduled for the next day, not the primary, but after being admonished by Magistrate Judge André Espionsa, it was an inappropriate rush to announce her trophy before polls closed,"

"This is the fourth instance where Pam Bondi's DOJ has charged a Democrat who did not meekly collude in DHS' immigration gulag: Milwaukee Judge Hanna Dugan, Baraka, McIver, and David Huerta (they had to dismiss the charges against Baraka, and he is suing for malicious prosecution). A pattern is emerging. All of these cases were charged as complaint, even though both the Dugan and McIver case had time to go before a grand jury."

Alina Habba announced the indictment of LaMonica McIver at 6:56 PM on a Tuesday, about an hour before New Jersey gubernatorial primary polls closed, while Ras Baraka (identified as Individual 1) became the second-highest vote-getter. The timing was set by a hearing scheduled the next day, not by the primary, and Magistrate Judge André Espionsa admonished the premature announcement, which took almost a day to be docketed. Press coverage relied heavily on Habba's press release and contained inaccuracies. The indictment added a misdemeanor instance to two existing felony 18 U.S.C. 111 charges. A pattern includes four cases tied to Pam Bondi's DOJ that targeted Democrats critical of DHS, many charged by complaint and publicly publicized.

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