Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: What to know about Hannah Dugan, the Milwaukee judge arrested amid ICE investigation on 4/25

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9. It might not look good for the judge, but something doesn't make sense to me.

Let me clear, I am very suspicious of the FBI/ICE under this administration, but there are questions that still don't make sense. First, if Eduardo Flores-Ruiz was still due for a pending pretrial healing, why do it now? Did they not know he had a pretrial hearing? The victims were in court, so why would FBI/ICE do it while he was still pending a hearing? I mean, they should have told the chief judge or whoever that there was a warrant for his arrest in advance. I can see why she would be upset because this wasn't told to them before the courtroom opened, and the judge had him on the docket.

Second, was he arrested prior to this hearing (i.e. before the ICE/FBI arrived)? It sounds like he was facing serious allegations of battery, domestic abuse, etc. Unless he wasn't arrested prior, that seems odd that he wasn't in jail. If that is the case, that sounds like there were errors on the part of the local police.

I'm not a lawyer, but it's my understanding that an administrative warrant does not mean you can enter a place where you expect privacy, such as a courtroom, without consent. In other words, even if ICE were to have a warrant for his arrest, you can't enter the place without the consent. If it was a judicial warrant, then that would be different. So ICE still is in the wrong here, they didn't have a judicial warrant, which is very different.