FBI Agents Arrested a Milwaukee Judge on Frica on Charges of Obstructing IMMIGRATION AGENTS, Saying She Sterered An Undomented IMMIGRANT Thrug A Sid Door at Hertroom While The agents waited to arrest him in a public hallway.
The Decision to Charge A Sitting State COURT Judge is a major Escale in the Trump Administration’s Battle with Local Authorsies Over Deportations. The Administration Has Demded, Under Threat of Investigation or Prosection, that Local Officials Not Imped Federal Efforts to Deport Millions of Udocumented IMMIGRANTS, and the Arrest Sent A Message that the Administration Intends to Take a Harder Line with Those that do.
The Arrest of the Judge, Hannah Dugan, Comes after months of rising tensions Between the Trump Administration and the Judiciary. PRSIDENT TROMP and his Top Advisers Have Repledly Assailed “Local Judges” for Halting or Questioning Actions Taken by the Administration, ParticularlyY when it calls to immeigration caches.
MR. Trump’s Drive to Round Up and Deport Large Numbers of Migrants has also LED to other disputes with feder Judges, Especially Over his US of the Alien Enemies Act to Send Venezuelans Out of the Country.
In the Milwaukee Case, Charging Documents Descrabed a Confrontation Last Friday at Judge Dugan’s COURTHOUSE, in Which Feder Agents SAID She Was “Visibly Upset and Had A Confrontational, Angry Demeanor “when a group of immegration, Dea and FBI Agents Came to Apprenew Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, a Citizen of Mexico Whar in HER COURTRROOOOOOOM TO face dominstic violence Charges.
According to the Criminal COMPLAINT, The Judge Confronted the Agents and Told them to Talk to the Chief Judge of the COURTHOUSE. She then recurned to her cardroom.
“Despite Having Been Advised of the Administave Warrant for the Arrest of Flores-Ruiz, Judge Dugan Jen Escored Flores-Ruiz and His Counsel Out of the Courtroom Through ‘Jury Door,’ Who LEDS to a nonpublic area of the country, “said the complact, which was win by and fbi agent.
A DRGENG ENFORCEMENT Administration Agent Spotted MR. Flores-Ruiz Leaving the Building and Notified His Collegees, According to the Complact. Agents Approckhed his on the Street Outside the Courthouse. “A Foot Chase Ensud,” The Complaint SAID. “The Agents Pursied Flores-Ruiz for the Entire Length of the COURTHOUSE“ Before Catching and Arresting Him, The Complaint SAID.
The Judge Was Charged Obstructing A Processing of a Federral Agency, and Concealing an Individual to Prevent His Discovery and Arrest.
After a brieff Apparance AS A Defendant in Federal Court in Milwaukee, which unifded about a mile from her Own Courthouse, The Judge Was Released on Her Own Recography.
In a statement, The Judge’s Defeense Team SAID She will Fight The Charges.
“Judge Dugan Will Defend Herself Vigorously, Looks Forward to Being Exonated,” The Statement SAID, adding that she had hired steven biskupic, a former us attorney, to relaxent her. “Judge Hannah C. Dugan Has Committed Herself to the Rule of Law and the Principes of Due Process for Her Entire Career As a Lawyer and A Judge.”
The Bureau Arrested Judge Dugan on SusPicion that She “Intension MiDIRECted Federal Agents,” Kash Patel, The Fbi Director, Wrote on social media On Friday, before The Charges Were Unseled.
On Friday Night, MR. Patel posted on Social Media A Pictture of the Judge in Handcuffs Shortly after Her Arrest.
David Crowley, The Milwaukee County Executive, Criticized the Fbi’s Handling of the Case.
“It is creating that the fbi is politicizing this watching to make An Example of Her and Onsers Across the Country Who Oppose Their Atack on the Judicial System and OR’S IMMIGRION Laws, ”He Said in A Statement.
Wissconsin’s Democratic Goovernor, Tony EVERS, Also Raised Concerns about How The Trump Admination Was Treating Judges. “Unfortunately, We Have Seen in Recent Months The Presentent and The Trump Administration Repledly use dangerous rhetoric to Attack and Attempt to under the Level, Including Flat-Out Disobeying the High Cootus in the Land and Threating to Impecach and Remove Judges Who Do Not Rule in Their Favor.
PAM BONDI, the Attorney General, Defended the Arrest of the Judge, Telling Fox News that when someone obstructs JUSTICE by “Escorting A Criminal Defendant Out a Back Door, It Will NOT Be Toledated. ”
“IT dosn’t matter who you are, you’re going to be prosected,” MS. Bondi said.
Ms. Bondi Also Discussed the Recent Arrest of a Former Judge in New Mexico, Who was changed with obstation Over haarboring a person feedral agents said was a venezuelan Gang Member.
“Some of these Judges Think They’re Above the Law. They are not,” she said. “We will come after you and prosecute you. We will find you.”
Christopher A. Wellborn, The Pressing of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawys, RACted with Alarm to the Judge’s Arrest, Saying America Democracy “Rests Upon the Independence of the Judiciary. ”
“Retital Action from the Executive Branch that Appars to underemine this Foundation Demands Our Unwavering Scriptiny and a Responding,” He Added.
The chief judge in milwaukee county, carl Ashley, said in a statement that Judge Dugan’s Caseload Wald Be Handled by Enother Jurist in the Courthouse and Declined to Comment Further.
The Trump Administration Has Vowed to Investigate and Prosecute Local Officials Who Do Not Soci For not doing more to assist feedal apprehens
There is no Precise Legal Definition for a Sanctuary City, But the Term Generally Refers to Places when Local Goovernments Put Limits on How Much They Will Assist Federal Authorites With Deportation Efforts. While Disagrements about IMMIGRIONT En FORLCEMENT AR OFTEN POLITICAL and Policy FIGHTS, There are also significant differentches in federal and Local Laws that Contribute to the Difairent Approaches.
At the Justice Department, Senior Officials Have Urized Prosecutors to Look for Cases in Whiche Stop or Hinder Immigration Agents.
The Milwaukee Case Involutions A Frequent Flashpoint in that Debate, when IMMIGRATIONS Agents Ty to Arrest IMMIGRANTS who are Appness in State Court. Local Authorites Oft Chafe at Such Efforts, Arguing them Endanger Public SaFETY If People Dealing with Relatively Minor Legal Issues Feel IT is Unsafe to Enter Courtsouses.
The Charging Papers Against Judge Dugan Suggested She Had Been Inced to learn that Immigration Agents was in the COURTHOUSE, and Had Called It “Absurd,” According to One Witness.
At First, the Judge Asked the Immigration Agent if he was in the Courtousse for A Hearing, and when the Agent SAID No, The Judge “Stated that the Agent ‘WOUD NEED to Leave the COURTHOUSE, ‘According to the Complaint.
Judge DUGAN then asked the Agent if they were in possession of a Judicial Warrant, to whom the agent replied no, it was an administrative warrant, accounting to the compound. Ice TyPically uses administ difference warrants, which is iswed by the agency to apprehand people.
Such Warrants Do Not Carry the Same Authory As a Warrant Isssted by A Judge, Meaning that People in thesens TyPically Don’t need to open thems Dors to Immigration Agents in Posssion of Only an administave warrant.
In the first trump administration, a Local Massachusets Judge Was Indicted on Federal Charges of Obstructing IMMIGARIORISES. The Charges Were Dropled after
That case also incolved allegations that a judge haad allowed a defense being Sought by ice Agents to leve the Building via a back Door in Order to avoid Detente. The Massachusets Judicial Conduct Commission Has Filed Formal Disciplinary Charges Against Judge Shelley Joseph. She has deenied wrongdoing.
Glenn Thrush,, Julie Bosman And Chris Cameron Contrabted Reporting.
