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Subject: Re: Wisconsin Judge Arrested for Obstruction for Helping Illegal Alien Escape ICE
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2025 17:43:53 -0000 (UTC)
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On Apr 27, 2025 at 9:38:20 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

> 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?

She actively aided and abetted their escape from the courthouse. And even the
judge didn't claim the warrant wasn't valid, just that it should have been on
a different form.

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