Soon after the U.S. Justice Department charged Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., with assaulting federal agents, the congresswoman went on CNN to talk about the case. But she did not sing during her interview, as a video circulating on X appeared to show.

Senators Cory Booker, Raphael Warnock, Lisa Blunt Rochester, and Angela Alsobrooks called out the Justice Department for trying to “intimidate” and “silence” the New Jersey congresswoman.

U.S. Representative LaMonica McIver, a Democrat from Newark, denied wrongdoing and said she was the victim of a politically motivated prosecution.

New Jersey Congresswoman LaMonica McIver is continuing to deny any wrongdoing outside a detention center in Newark on May 9. A federal complaint says Congresswoman McIver attempted to stop the arrest of Mayor Ras Baraka and pushed into agents for Homeland Security.