Sherrill Gets Ethics Complaint Over ICE-Portal Operated By AG. No Reaction From NJ Republicans or GOP Senators Who Shamefully Voted To Confirm AG Davenport.
Contributed by Jersey Conservative
By Rubashov
Tyler O’Neil is an investigative reporter worthy of the writers who do great work at ProPublica. O’Neil has researched and written two books: “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center,” and “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government.” He is a senior editor at The Daily Signal.
On Tuesday, in The Daily Signal, O’Neil reported that Governor Mikie Sherrill “faces an ethics complaint after she asked Garden State residents to report on Immigration and Customs Enforcement to the state government.” The story continues:
O’Neil reminds readers that Sherrill went on “The Daily Show” in January, outlining her plan to launch a portal for Garden State residents to report ICE activity. He quotes the Governor:
O’Neil outlines the complaint:
O’Neil posts the full 5-page complaint on The Daily Signal:
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/03/03/mikie-sherrill-faces-ethics-complaint-new-jersey-program-report-ice-activity/
You can download the complaint from O’Neil’s story at The Daily Signal. Below is a copy of the first page…
Using professional conduct complaints is an interesting response to reckless, politically-motivated theatre by lawyer-politicians like Governor Sherrill and, perhaps, Jennifer Davenport who operates the program to enlist untrained civilians and send them after armed law enforcement officers. Both Sherrill and Davenport, as former prosecutors, darn well know that every interaction with the police has the potential to go wrong.
Overcriminalization is a fact faced by our society already. Professor Douglas Husak of Rutgers University says that approximately 70 percent of American adults have, usually unwittingly, committed a crime for which they could be imprisoned. Sherrill and Davenport want to send these people, unknowingly, up against armed law enforcement officers who can investigate, detain, and arrest them.
Now, in addition to overcriminalization that they helped to facilitate, these irresponsible lawyer-politicians are asking civilians to play at policing armed law enforcement, creating more occasions for law enforcement, who hold the state’s monopoly on legal violence, to make mistakes. Professor Stephen L. Carter, of the Yale Law School, reminds us that “every act of enforcement includes the possibility of violence.”
It is easy for a politician to do something… anything, to be seen to be doing something. Genuine public servants strive to not make things worse or dangerous. Throughout the modern world, politicians behave like incompetent doctors, treating every ailment with a pill, followed by every side effect with a different pill – and when those produce new side effects, with still more pills, and so on. Until the layers of pills and side effects and still more pills leave one in doubt as to the original ailment.
It is madness and it will do far more harm than any good. It is time for these politicians to be held to account, professionally and politically.