Thousands of New Jerseyans demonstrated in towns across the state Saturday as part of the No Kings protests to criticize the expansion of power in the executive branch under President Donald Trump — likened to a monarchy by many who took to the streets.

But the criticism of Trump by no means stopped there among the hundreds of protesters, dozens of labor leaders and a handful of Democratic officials gathered Saturday morning at City Hall in Jersey City.

They railed against arrests of undocumented immigrants by ICE officers, bemoaned billions of dollars in cuts to social safety net programs and criticized the rolling back of taxpayer-funded health care.

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"We do not swear an oath to a president," Sen. Andy Kim, a Democrat, told the large crowd. "We sw

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