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.

 
 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

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