A federal judge ruled Thursday that two of the three assault charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver can proceed, largely rejecting the first-term Democrat’s bids to dismiss the charges and paving the way for the case to go to trial.

U.S. District Court Judge Jamel K. Semper, in a 41-page ruling , dismissed McIver’s claims that she is the victim of selective prosecution and that most of the charges she faces are barred by legislative immunity. Prosecutors allege McIver assaulted federal agents on May 9 at the Delaney Hall migrant jail in Newark as the agents moved to arrest Newark Mayor Ras Baraka.

“Defendant has not met her burden of establishing that her predominant purpose in physically opposing the Mayor’s arrest was to conduct oversight or gather information for a legisl

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