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Subject: Re: Wisconsin Judge Arrested for Obstruction for Helping Illegal
 Alien Escape ICE
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2025 12:40:57 -0400
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On 4/27/2025 9:35 AM, NoBody wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 17:19:25 -0400, 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?
>>
> Wait, so you just defended a judge breaking federal law????

Umm, I asked a question.  Sorry if you found it defensive/offensive...