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

On 4/28/2025 7:28 AM, NoBody wrote:

On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 12:38:20 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
wrote:
 

On 4/27/2025 12:45 AM, BTR1701 wrote:

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

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No.

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

 
Show us the warrant was invalid before you proceed with this course of
"logic".

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Hmm, I think there was a judge who said it was improper...
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