Judge is released after arrest

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Edited By BRIDGET BROWN, BERNARD McGHEE and DREW CALLISTER
Updated 2:54 PM EDT, April 25, 2025

The FBI on Friday arrested Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan, accused of helping a man evade immigration authorities, escalating a clash between the Trump administration and the judiciary over the Republican president’s sweeping immigration crackdown.

https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-4-25-2025

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1. Impeach him now.

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2. Congress erupts over FBI arrest of Wisconsin judge

... "It is remarkable that the Administration would dare to start arresting state court judges," said House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.). "It's a whole new descent into government chaos."

"The Trump administration again is breaking norms in how it's dealing with immigration, the legal system, and normalcy. ... This is stuff I expect from Third World countries," Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wisc.) told Axios.

Said Rep. Greg Landsman (D-Ohio): "They arrested a judge?! They can no longer claim to be a party of law and order. This will have to be a red line for congressional Republicans. Unbelievable" ...

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/25/fbi-arrest-judge-hannah-dugan-wisconsin-congress

[Gore1FL]

3. Why would a local judge, or anyone else be compelled to help ICE with their investigations? nt

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4. Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley Statement

... “FBI Director Kash Patel issued a public statement on X, which he hurriedly deleted, making unsubstantiated claims about Judge Dugan’s case before charges were officially filed and she could have her moment in court. Director Patel’s statement shows that Trump’s FBI is more concerned about weaponizing federal law enforcement, punishing people without due process, and intimidating anyone who opposes those policies, than they are with seeking justice.

“I am extremely concerned about the Trump administration’s continued intention to instill fear and hostility across our community. My office will continue to seek legal clarity as this alarming situation evolves” ...

https://urbanmilwaukee.com/pressrelease/milwaukee-county-executive-david-crowley-statement-on-the-arrest-of-judge-hannah-dugan/

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5. Congresswoman Gwen Moore Statement

... This Administration’s willingness to weaponize federal law enforcement is shocking and this arrest has all the hallmarks of overreach.

Federal law enforcement coming into a community and arresting a judge is a serious matter and would require a high legal bar. I will be following this case closely and facts will come out, however, I am very alarmed at the increasingly lawless actions of the Trump Administration, and in particular ICE, who have been defying courts and acting with disregard for the Constitution” ...

https://urbanmilwaukee.com/pressrelease/congresswoman-gwen-moore-statement-on-arrest-of-milwaukee-county-circuit-judge-hannah-dugan/

[allegorical oracle]

6. Suspect this maneuver puts other judges on guard. Which way would they take it?

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9. judge's arrest a warning to others, Bondi says

Jason Lalljee

Attorney General Pam Bondi promised on Friday prosecution for judiciary members who cross the Trump administration ... Bondi's threat comes on the heels of the FBI's Friday arrest of Hannah Dugan, a Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge, on charges of obstruction of an immigration arrest operation ... Bondi said that the Trump administration will target judges who oppose the president's growing immigration crackdown ...

"It shows that immigrants who must appear in court to answer charges, even very minor ones, are sitting ducks for ICE agents, and it likely places many immigrants in a terrible choice between appearing in court, which they are legally required to do, and potentially getting arrested, or not appearing and facing new charges or bench warrant for failure to appear" ...

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/25/hannah-dugan-trump-bondi-fbi-arrest

[orangecrush]

11. Gestapo Barbie

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7. What legal experts say

Eva Wen
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

... Sources told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that Dugan directed the ICE agents to Chief Judge Carl Ashley's office. During that time, sources said, Dugan allowed the defendant to leave the courtroom through a side door, down a private hallway and into a public area ...

None of the five experts interviewed by the Journal Sentinel said Dugan should be charged with a federal crime ...

Ashley, the chief judge, has said he is in the process of drafting protocols around immigration enforcement at the courthouse. As of last week, the draft policy was being circulated among judicial system partners and was to be released soon, Ashley said ...

Dugan's situation bears some similarities to a case in Massachusetts ...

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/2025/04/25/fbi-investigating-allegations-that-milwaukee-judge-helped-an-immigrant-avoid-ice-arrest-dugan/83250128007/

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8. If ICE would have succeeded this person would be in TEXAS today

I'm sure of that.

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10. Perhaps

According to the arrest affidavit for the judge, he had already been deported once, in 2013
and he was in court for some what sounds like serious allegations, the victims (plural) were in court to testify at the hearing which was apparently never held

This whole case sounds like a legal mess

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12. allegations Milwaukee County judge tried to help undocumented defendant avoid arrest

Daniel Bice
Chris Ramirez
Vanessa Swales
Mary Spicuzza
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

... "As a point of clarification below, a warrant was not presented in the hallway on the 6th floor," Dugan wrote.

That prompted Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Marisabel Cabrera to say in a later email to the other judges that her understanding was that ICE agents had presented an administrative warrant, not a judicial warrant ...

"A judicial warrant is issued by a federal court based on probable cause and permits law enforcement to enter premises that are not public and search to seize property or arrest someone subject to the protections of the 4th Amendment," said Daun, who previously served as Milwaukee County's chief legal officer.

"You do not need to open the door or permit entry or a search when presented only with an ICE or so-called 'immigration' warrant," she said ...

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/22/fbi-probing-claim-mke-judge-helped-undocumented-defendant-evade-arrest/83220833007/

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13. FBI (F)ull of (B)ullshit (I) guess

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220269277

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15. TY Full of Bullshit Idiots.

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14. Maddow Blog-As FBI arrests judge in Wisconsin, AG Pam Bondi directs new threats at the judiciary

The Republican offensive against the judiciary has been unsubtle, but the Trump administration hadn’t arrested a sitting judge — until now.

As FBI arrests judge in Wisconsin, AG Pam Bondi directs new threats at the judiciary.
The Republican offensive against the judiciary has been unsubtle, but the Trump administration hadn’t arrested a sitting judge — until now.

Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/fbi-arrests-judge-wisconsin-ag-pam-bondi-directs-new-threats-judiciary-rcna203061

The Republican offensive against the courts and judges in recent months has been as subtle as a sledgehammer. The Washington Post recently summarized, for example, that the White House has pushed forward with “delegitimizing” the independent judiciary, and there’s overwhelming evidence to bolster the point.....

But the Trump administration hadn’t gone so far as to actually arrest a sitting judge — until now. NBC News reported:

The FBI arrested a county judge in Milwaukee on Friday, alleging that she obstructed the detention of an undocumented immigrant who was wanted by federal authorities on an administrative immigration warrant by escorting the man and his defense attorney though a non-public jury door. The arrest of Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan marks a significant escalation of the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration, in line with its rhetoric about going after local and state authorities on immigration-related matters.

.....Shortly after Dugan was taken into custody, Kash Patel, Trump’s highly controversial FBI director, published a tweet that effectively spiked the football. “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,” he wrote in a missive that was deleted a short time later. “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.”

Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin didn’t quite see it that way.

“In the United States, we have a system of checks and balances and separations of power for damn good reasons,” the senator said in a statement. “The president’s administration arresting a sitting judge is a gravely serious and drastic move, and it threatens to breach those very separations of power. Make no mistake, we do not have kings in this country, and we are a democracy governed by laws that everyone must abide by. By relentlessly attacking the judicial system, flouting court orders, and arresting a sitting judge, this president is putting those basic Democratic values that Wisconsinites hold dear on the line."
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3lnnprevixu2y

Link to tweet

“[Judges] are deranged, is all I can think of,” Bondi said during her 18th appearance on Fox this year. “I think some of these judges think that they are beyond and above the law, and they are not. And we’re sending a very strong message today: If you are harboring a fugitive, we don’t care who you are. ... We will come after you and we will prosecute you. We will find you.”.....

Through her legal counsel, Dugan issued a statement Friday afternoon that read, “Judge Hannah C. Dugan has committed herself to the rule of law and the principles of due process for her entire career as a lawyer and a judge. She has retained former United States Attorney Steven Biskupic to represent her. Judge Dugan will defend herself vigorously and looks forward to being exonerated. This will be the extent of any statements or interviews at this time.”

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16. So .. Two Deranged Putin Fuckhead running America's FBI Full of

Bullshit Idiots. :

Something Needs to be Done.