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

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?