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

On 4/26/2025 7:05 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

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.

 

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?

 Warrant? ICE doesn't serve warrants on aliens subject to removal.
 Courtroom? At no time had they entered the courtroom during court.
 Why is moviePig making shit up?

"...she repeatedly demanded they leave, saying they needed a different kind of warrant to make the arrest..."

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