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Subject: Re: Wisconsin Judge Arrested for Obstruction for Helping Illegal
 Alien Escape ICE
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2025 12:46:55 -0400
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On 4/27/2025 9:33 AM, NoBody wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 19:11:07 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
> 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.
>>
> 
> Toss her in jail and throw away the key.  When judges pick and choose
> the laws they will follow while dictating laws for everyone else, we
> are officially in a Constitutional crisis.

But would you want a system giving judges no discretion whatsoever?