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Subject: Re: Wisconsin Judge Arrested for Obstruction for Helping Illegal Alien Escape ICE
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2025 04:45:42 -0000 (UTC)
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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.
>>>>    
>>>>    --------------------------------
>>>>    
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 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

No.

>  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.