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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: Wisconsin Judge Arrested for Obstruction for Helping Illegal
 Alien Escape ICE
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2025 12:38:20 -0400
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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.
>>>>>     
>>>>>     --------------------------------
>>>>>     
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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 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"...