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

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.

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

  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.

Oh, I see.  Hmm, I wonder why the article didn't mention that.
So, this whole action was all about taking down a known "activist"...