Updated September 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM PDT

Five Republicans voted with Democrats to stop a vote to censure Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., following her indictment earlier this year after an altercation with law enforcement during a visit to an immigration facility.

Republican Reps. Don Bacon and Mike Flood of Nebraska, John Joyce of Pennsylvania, Mike Turner of Ohio and David Valdado of California voted with Democrats to prevent a vote to censure McIver and remove her from her spot on the House Homeland Security Committee.

McIver was indicted by a federal grand jury in June on criminal counts stemming from a visit to an immigration detention facility that resulted in a physical altercation with law enforcement. She pleaded not guilty.

That indictment listed three counts of "assaul

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