Newark Mayor Ras Baraka this week urged a federal court to allow his false arrest and malicious prosecution lawsuit to continue in response to federal prosecutors’ arguments that federal doctrine shields acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba from the suit.
Prosecutors’ claims that Habba and a Department of Homeland Security investigator also named in the suit are entitled to qualified and absolute immunity is “breathtaking in its presumption that these actions can escape any accountability by the third branch of government,” Yael Bromberg, Baraka’s attorney, wrote to the judge overseeing the case on Tuesday.
New videos capture tense moments surrounding arrest of Newark mayor
The videos show Rep. LaMonica McIver’s anger over federal officials’ resistance to an inspection of a migrant jail in Newark.
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In Brief Newark Mayor Ras Baraka this week urged a federal court to allow his false arrest and malicious prosecution lawsuit to continue in response to federal prosecutors’ arguments that federal...