Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Wisconsin Judge Arrested for Obstruction for Helping Illegal Alien Escape ICE Date: Sat, 3 May 2025 17:03:19 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 145 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=fixed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 03 May 2025 19:03:20 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="327c8109ff8b9573a69e71a3967cab78"; logging-data="4171254"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19rFjBxftMNAFLWPnJs/H57" User-Agent: Usenapp/0.92.2/l for MacOS Cancel-Lock: sha1:+Y3V2Ez78CPXmePs5tWmNlQgZ5I= On May 3, 2025 at 8:30:06 AM PDT, "moviePig" wrote: > On 5/3/2025 9:43 AM, NoBody wrote: >> On Fri, 2 May 2025 12:01:49 -0400, moviePig >> wrote: >> >>> On 5/2/2025 7:22 AM, NoBody wrote: >>>> On Thu, 1 May 2025 12:28:27 -0400, moviePig >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 5/1/2025 7:28 AM, NoBody wrote: >>>>>> On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 22:30:29 -0400, moviePig >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> On 4/30/2025 5:40 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>>>>>>> On Apr 30, 2025 at 2:16:24 PM PDT, "moviePig" wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> On 4/30/2025 3:24 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>>>>>>>>> On Apr 30, 2025 at 11:37:37 AM PDT, "moviePig" >>>>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> On 4/30/2025 2:21 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>> On Apr 30, 2025 at 8:37:27 AM PDT, "moviePig" >>>>>>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/29/2025 11:53 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Apr 29, 2025 at 8:28:00 PM PDT, "moviePig" >>>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/29/2025 11:20 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Apr 29, 2025 at 7:38:55 PM PDT, "moviePig" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/29/2025 10:10 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Apr 29, 2025 at 1:32:51 PM PDT, "moviePig" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> As he was merely accused, any "shoulds" are all in one's >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> biases. I.e., >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> he's entitled to the same "help" as an innocent you would be. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I wouldn't be entitled to a judge running cover for me while she >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> directs me >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a back door to evade the cops, either. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> *If* she thought you were illegally pursued, it'd be her *duty*. >>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> No, it wouldn't. >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Sure it would, if not legally then ethically. >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> Well, ethical civil disobedience comes with a price. MLK >>>>>>>>>>>> and Gandhi both >>>>>>>>>>>> recognized that and did their time for breaking the law in pursuit of >>>>>>>>>>>> their >>>>>>>>>>>> higher cause. This judge should be prepared to do the same. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> But if she believed the warrant invalid then, civil or uncivil, her >>>>>>>>>>> disobedience would be inadvertent. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> She had *no business* checking the warrant in the first place. >>>>>>>>>> She has no >>>>>>>>>> jurisdiction over federal immigration law. She's no different >>>>>>>>>> than any other >>>>>>>>>> citizen with regard to the ICE arrest. John Doe on the street >>>>>>>>>> can't walk up >>>>>>>>>> to >>>>>>>>>> an ongoing ICE operation and start demanding to see paperwork >>>>>>>>>> and neither >>>>>>>>>> can >>>>>>>>>> a state court judge. And if either one of them do so, they can >>>>>>>>>> be arrested >>>>>>>>>> and >>>>>>>>>> charged with obstruction. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> How does that work, then? Can you be having dinner at home with your >>>>>>>>> wife and, when a knock at the door turns out to be a stranger claiming >>>>>>>>> to have a warrant to take her away, you can't say "Show me"? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> You can ask it, but they don't have to show you. They will have to >>>>>>>> show *her* >>>>>>>> and her attorney (and the court) at some point to validate the >>>>>>>> arrest, but you >>>>>>>> don't have any legal standing to demand it. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> And this is just a state court judge in the lobby of a courthouse, not some >>>>>>>> family member in their own home, so whatever standing the husband in your >>>>>>>> scenario may have, it certainly wouldn't apply to Judge Busybody. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> So, "at some point" would seem to mean 'whenever we feel like it'. >>>>>>> Thus, if some random guys show up claiming to have a warrant ("back at >>>>>>> the station") for your arrest, you'd better simply let them spirit you >>>>>>> away while try to assure yourself they're not actually kidnappers... >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> She's a judge. She should know she has no authority in this matter. >>>>>> Ridiculous how you continue to defend an obviously illegal act on the >>>>>> judge's part. >>>>> >>>>> She's saying the warrant was improper, and her act thus not illegal. >>>> >>>> So now you ARE saying she issued a ruling? >>>> >>>> Make up your mind dude. >>>> >>>> She either issued a formal ruling that the warrant was "improper" >>>> >>>> OR >>>> >>>> She made up her own interpretation without authority and then acted >>>> illegally based on her unauthorized interpretation. >>>> >>>> Which is it? >>> >>> She (is saying) she believed the warrant invalid, not declaring it so. >> >> You are attempting to draw a distinction with no difference. You >> think that, because she's a judge, she can disregard a legal warrant >> based solely on her personal opinion of it. > > Again... she allegedly believed the warrant invalid, not as a matter of > "personal opinion" but as one of fact. Again, her personal belief is of no more consequence than any other random person on the street. This wasn't occurring in her courtroom and was not within her jurisdiction as a judge. If some random citizen walked up to ICE agents in the middle of an operation in their neighborhood and demanded to see the warrant (and assuming they showed it to humor him), his opinion that it isn't valid would make absolutely no difference and have no relevance to ICE's actions. They'd just say "Okay, buddy, whatever. Now go away or you'll be arrested for obstruction and interference." This judge is just a random citizen with regard to a federal ICE operation. Her status as a state court judge gives her no special authority or jurisdiction to declare warrants valid or invalid and have that somehow affect what ICE is doing. They are free to completely ignore her, just as they would that guy I described above and if she takes further action to frustrate or impede their operation, she goes to jail.