2025 Insider 100: Legal Power List

This year’s InsiderNJ Legal Power List contains obvious overriding themes central to Constitutional protections amid the ongoing federal prosecution of illegal immigrants. Within that, the May 9th arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka in his own city outside an ICE detention facility and subsequent indictment of U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver for allegedly assaulting, impeding and interfering with masked agents carrying assault weapons placed NJ in the country’s legal crosshairs.

Said U.S. Magistrate Judge André Espinosa in the aftermath: “An arrest, particularly of a public figure, is not a preliminary investigative tool. It is a severe action, carrying significant reputational and personal consequences, and it should only be undertaken after a thorough, dispassionate evaluation of…