Re: Wisconsin Judge Arrested for Obstruction for Helping Illegal Alien Escape ICE

On 4/26/2025 6:45 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Apr 26, 2025 at 2:19:25 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
 

On 4/26/2025 3:11 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

  The FBI arrested a state judge in Wisconsin on obstruction charges after she
  helped a wife-beating illegal alien escape the courthouse when ICE showed up
  to arrest him.
    There must be snowdrifts in hell today. I never thought I'd see the day when
  these activist judges were held to account. So satisfying seeing this judge
  led out of her own courthouse in handcuffs.
    The illegal was in state court facing charges for having put his wife in the
  hospital for the second time. Imagine being the victim, sitting in court,
and
  watching the judge in your case help your abuser escape arrest.
    Of course, Congressional Democrats who, upon hearing the story, immediately
  proceeded to decry the "increasingly lawless actions" of the Trump
  administration without the slightest hint of irony or hypocrisy. Amy
Klobuchar
  breathlessly declared that this is a "constitutional crisis".
    I had no idea the Constitution required us to allow judges to break the law
  and that stopping them from doing so puts the whole system in crisis.
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https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/04/25/politics/fbi-director-wisconsin-judge-arrested
    A Milwaukee County Circuit judge was arrested by the FBI Friday and charged
in
  federal court for allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant avoid arrest.
    Judge Hannah Dugan is facing two charges for obstruction and concealing the
  individual from arrest. She made an initial appearance in court and was
  released.
    The arrest on federal charges is an escalation in the Trump administration’s
  focus on judges' conduct, particularly as it relates to immigration
  enforcement. The Justice Department has repeatedly asserted that it will
  investigate any local officials who interfere with federal authorities on
  immigration matters.
    "We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from
the
  subject to be arrested in her courthouse, Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, allowing the
  subject-- an illegal alien-- to evade arrest," FBI Director Kash Patel said
on
  X in a post Friday morning. "Thankfully our agents chased down the perp on
  foot and he's been in custody since, but the judge's obstruction created
  increased danger to the public."
    In court on Friday, Dugan's attorney said that "Judge Dugan wholeheartedly
  regrets and protests her arrest. It was not made in the interest of public
  safety," according to the AP.
    In charging documents, investigators said that plainclothes federal agents
  went to Dugan's courtroom on April 18 with the intention of arresting
  Flores-Ruiz. A Mexican immigrant, Flores-Ruiz had been removed from the
United
  States in 2013, but immigration officials learned he was back in the country
  illegally because of his arrest in a local domestic abuse case.
    After being informed of the agents' presence by her courtroom deputy, the
  judge "became visibly angry, commented that the situation was 'absurd', left
  the bench, and entered chambers," court documents say. Witnesses told
  investigators that Dugan confronted the federal agents in a public hallway,
  where she repeatedly demanded they leave, saying they needed a different
kind
  of warrant to make the arrest. Dugan ordered the agents to speak with the
  chief judge of the courthouse.
    Several witnesses-- including Dugan's courtroom deputy and both the
prosecutor
  and the Victim Witness Specialist on Flores-Ruiz’s case-- allegedly
recounted
  seeing Dugan then direct Flores-Ruiz and his attorney to leave through a
"jury
  door", which leads to a non-public area of the courthouse, court documents
  say.
    One of the witnesses told investigators that Dugan stopped the two as they
  tried to exit through the normal door to the courtroom, saying something to
  the effect of "Wait, come with me".
    Flores-Ruiz and his attorney quickly exited the courthouse before the agents
  were able to catch up to them, investigators say. Agents found Flores-Ruiz
  outside the courthouse and identified themselves. He took off running but
was
  eventually captured.
    CNN has reached out to Flores-Ruiz's attorney for comment. Flores-Ruiz has
not
  yet entered a plea to federal charges related to his efforts to evade arrest
  and is being detained, according to his court record. This is a separate
case
  from the charges against Dugan.
    Attorney General Pam Bondi said in an interview on Fox News after the arrest
  was executed that "If you are destroying evidence and you are obstructing
  justice, when you have victims of domestic violence sitting in a courtroom
and
  you are escorting the criminal defendant out the back door, it will not be
  tolerated. I think some of these judges think they are beyond and above the
  law, and they are not."
    Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, similarly said in a post on X that "Nobody
  should be surprised by the arrest of two judges." The second judge he is
  referring to is former magistrate judge Joel Cano, who is charged with
  harboring three alleged illegal alien gang members on his property.
    "If you actively impede our enforcement efforts or if you knowingly harbor
or
  conceal illegal aliens from ICE, you will be prosecuted," Homan said.

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If the agents' warrant, and thus their right to be in her courtroom, was
invalid, then what should she have done ...salute?

 Given the judge's lawless behavior, why do you automatically assume she was
telling the truth about the warrant rather than dissembling as yet another
tactic to give the illegal time to escape?

Wasn't her behavior lawful if the warrant was invalid ...since without it these cops were merely abductors?  Why do you automatically assume she'd invite (at least) censure in order to abet a serial wife-beater?