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

On 2025-04-27 3:22 PM, moviePig wrote:

On 4/27/2025 1:43 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Apr 27, 2025 at 9:38:20 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
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On 4/27/2025 12:45 AM, BTR1701 wrote:

  On Apr 26, 2025 at 8:06:57 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

  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?

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  Wasn't her behavior lawful if the warrant was invalid

  No.

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Why not? Without a valid warrant, what gives them more rights than you?

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She actively aided and abetted their escape from the courthouse. And even the
judge didn't claim the warrant wasn't valid, just that it should have been on
a different form.

 That sounds like a distinction without a difference.  What requirement of "form" could go unmet without attenuating a warrant's validity?
 

    Why do you automatically assume
  she'd invite (at least) censure in order to abet a serial wife- beater?

  Because she's a leftist open-borders lunatic.

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Oh, I see.  Hmm, I wonder why the article didn't mention that.

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All you have to do is research her.
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So, this whole action was all about taking down a known "activist"...

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She took herself down. Nothing would have happened to her had she not
obstructed ICE.

 Ah, so she's guilty of past thought-crimes.  Even then, it's hard to picture a female judge so dedicated to razing borders that she'd free a serial wife-beater.  Not impossible, just unrealistic...
 

You "progressives" have no trouble in championing one cause at the expense of people you're also supposed to champion. For example, you'd think that "progressives" would be opposed to FGM (female genital mutilation) as an affront to feminism and human rights but, instead, you declare it to be a cultural matter and therefore exempt from criticism. ("Progressives" apparently seek to ally with Muslims against their enemies so give them a pass on FGM.)
Giving a wife-beater a pass to further the cause of defending Open Borders seems a very similar sort of strategic decision to me.
--
Rhino