ROXBURY TOWNSHIP - Don't blame me, it's not my fault.

That was Mikie Sherrill's reaction when asked about comments by township officials that her response to the feds abandoning plans for an ICE detention center in this Morris County town caused them to change their mind, presumably out of spite.

"Because I reported that we won?'" the governor said at a Tuesday press conference.

"So somehow that gives Trump full license to walk back a very bad decision," she added.

The still continuing ICE saga appeared to reach its end in late June when the Department of Homeland Security said it was no longer considering developing a detention center in a warehouse off of Route 46.That plan, which surfaced last December, had been under legal attack by both the Republican-run township and state - a rare sign of bipartisan agreement in polarizing times.

A statement in late June by the governor and Jenniffer Davenport, the attorney general, called the feds change of plans a "major victory for the State and for the township of Roxbury.”

Perhaps.

A few weeks later, the feds said the Roxbury site was still being considered. And in a more recent filing last Friday, the Department of Homeland Security reiterated that it is "continuing to assess whether to proceed with plans to convert the Roxbury warehouse into a detention facility. At present, there is no timeline for reaching that decision."

The feds' apparent change of heart prompted an acrimonious township council meeting last week in which some in the audience accused the council of "not doing enough" to fight the plan.

Additionally, Councilman James Rilee suggested that what he called Sherrill''s "anti-Trump dance" prompted the feds to change course.

Or in other words, her celebration was a bit too exuberant.

As noted, the governor dismissed that view. She said of the feds:

"They overpaid (for the warehouse). They lost in court and they have egg on their face. .. When you make a stupid decision, you often lose in court."

Actually, the case is not yet over.

If the feds push the issue, the litigation will continue.
Sherrill seems ready for that. She said:

"I believe we will keep winning in court."