FBI Arrests Judge Over Immigration Case

[Tonk]

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Source: Newsweek

FBI Director Kash Patel said on Friday that his agency had arrested Judge Hannah Dugan out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin on charges related to her allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant evade arrest.

"Just NOW, the FBI arrested Judge Hannah Dugan out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin on charges of obstruction — after evidence of Judge Dugan obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week," Patel, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

"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," the FBI director said.

"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."

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/fbi-arrests-judge-over-immigration-case-2064204

[LiberalArkie]

1. I wonder if Ruiz was armed and a real threat to the public like ICE is?

Patel added that the agents were able to take Ruiz into custody nonetheless but he also claimed that Judge Dugan had “created increased danger to the public” by what he called her “obstruction.”

[bucolic_frolic]

2. This will fly like a lead dodo bird

[Ellipsis]

3. "chased down the perp"... what a TV show mentality.

[wiggs]

4. That Patel is involved lets you know this is for show and intimidation. Arresting judges....wow. nt

[riversedge]

5. Kash Patel calls the immigrant an "alien" and "perp"--This is very unprofessional IMHO!

--The preferred notation is "undocumented immigrant"==if indeed that is what the subject is.
Nothing in article about why the subject was in the courtroom.



"The FBI arrested Judge Hannah Dugan out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin on charges of obstruction -- after evidence of Judge Dugan obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week," he posted. "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."

Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan, shown during a candidate forum in 2016.
Mike De Sisti/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/IMAGN

Flores Ruiz was still arrested 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," Patel said.

Dugan was arrested early Friday at the courthouse, a law enforcement official told ABC News.


https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-hannah-dugan-arrested-fbi-allegedly-helping-undocumented/story?id=121161497

Link to tweet

[hadEnuf]

6. Busting into a courthouse where a judge is presiding and then arresting her because they "believe" she tipped

off a suspect? This is outrageous. It's fascist, Nazi totalitarianism by the book.

Maybe states need to start mobilizing their militias to deal with this?

What happened to the "jack booted thugs" that the phony right was always screeching about?

I guess who is wearing the jackboots is all that matters to them.

[riversedge]

7. Seth Abramson: BREAKING: The constitutional crisis has arrived. We knew it was coming, just not when...........

Indeed, if it has not begun before, it has now.


Seth Abramson ‪@sethabramson.bsky.social‬
BREAKING: The constitutional crisis has arrived. We knew it was coming, just not when.

https://bsky.app/profile/sethabramson.bsky.social/post/3lnnhgymozs2w

[Omaha Steve]

8. AFTER a review by forum hosts LOCKING

DUPE of https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143447288

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