FBI verhaftet den Richter in Wisconsin, sagt Patel

Well, that didnt take long. Democracy was fun while it lasted.

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This one feels scary. A real fascism gut punch.

This is a crime! The executive branch can not arrest members of the judiciary in a democracy

It’s almost like Trump is pissed they couldn’t get the WI Supreme Court

So when do we protest?

From the article: 

>In the first Trump administration, a local Massachusetts judge was indicted by the Justice Department on charges of obstructing immigration authorities. The charges were dropped after the judge agreed to refer herself to potential judicial discipline.

„Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested on suspicion that she “intentionally misdirected federal agents away from” an immigrant being pursued by the authorities, the F.B.I. director said in a social media post that he later deleted.

April 25, 2025 Updated 12:18 p.m. ET

F.B.I. Director Kash Patel said on Friday that agents had arrested a county judge in Milwaukee on charges of obstructing immigration enforcement. A spokesman for the U.S. Marshals confirmed the arrest of a sitting judge, a major escalation in the Trump administration’s battle with local authorities over deportations.

The bureau arrested Judge Hannah Dugan on suspicion that she “intentionally misdirected federal agents away from” an immigrant being pursued by federal authorities, [Mr. Patel wrote](https://x.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/1915770607054041488) on social media. He later deleted the post for reasons that were not immediately clear. An F.B.I. spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Brady McCarron, a spokesman for the U.S. Marshals, confirmed that the judge had been arrested by F.B.I. agents on Friday morning. The charging document against the judge was not immediately available in federal court records.

The case appears to stem from an incident last week in which Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents came to the courthouse seeking to apprehend an immigrant who had a misdemeanor case before Judge Dugan.

The F.B.I. has been investigating whether the judge directed the defendant and his lawyer to exit her courtroom out a side door and hallway while the immigration agents were elsewhere in the building, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel has reported.

The chief judge in Milwaukee County, Carl Ashley, said in a statement that Judge Dugan’s caseload would be handled by another jurist in the courthouse and declined to comment further.

The Trump administration has vowed to investigate and prosecute local officials who do not assist federal immigration enforcement efforts, denouncing what they call “sanctuary cities” for not doing more to assist federal apprehensions and deportations of millions of undocumented immigrants.

The Milwaukee case involves a frequent flashpoint in that debate, when immigration agents try to arrest undocumented immigrants who are appearing in state court. Local authorities often chafe at such efforts, arguing they endanger public safety if people dealing with relatively minor legal issues feel it is unsafe to enter courthouses.

In the first Trump administration, a [local Massachusetts judge was indicted](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/16/us/shelley-joseph-immigration-judge.html) by the Justice Department on charges of obstructing immigration authorities. [The charges were dropped](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/22/us/massachusetts-judge-obstruction-immigration.html) after the judge agreed to refer herself to potential judicial discipline.

That case also involved allegations that a judge allowed a defendant being sought by I.C.E. agents to leave the building via a back door in order to avoid detention. The Massachusetts Judicial Conduct Commission has filed formal disciplinary charges against Judge Shelley Joseph. She has denied wrongdoing.“

Pitiful.

GOP rubber stamped this facist goon

Republicans, what is your response?

Oh, I dont have to ask. I know what it is. Crickets.

trump helped hundreds of Jan. 6th criminals escape prison and evade justice, but trump will never be arrested for doing that.

It’s happening folks

„you stated the law, which the leader disagrees with, so we will arrest you“. This is THE LINE guys. This is somebody being arrested because the existing law was inconvenient for the administration. 

Post-Reagan Republicans never actually believed in the balance and separation of powers. They believed in consolidating power where they had it, and balance and separation where they didn’t. Now that they have the presidency again, and enough power-hungry sycophants are willing to take the first steps, the rest of the party is going to go along with it, pretending they’re totally helpless along the way.

MAGA wants a monarchy where the monarch is someone who will rule with an iron fist in the way they want, while reassuring all the people who support him. They want power, full stop. Whatever they have to say or do to get more of it, they will. It’s millions of people all in it for themselves, joined in their mutual hatred of certain groups of people. The narrative is already there, Trump won one national election, but all the people serving as his checks and balances didn’t, so he should have all the power.

Fascism, with no push back from cowardly American citizens.

I’m not american, but huh, is ICE just the modern gestapo?

Like every time I see a headline that involve them, it look like they are the worst humans beings you could find making any kind of human rights humiliation for shit and giggles.

Just wondering.

If a foreign nation was focused on more-or-less covertly damaging America’s standing in the world, by damaging its economy, the dollar, public health, education, public safety, and its citizens‘ desire and ability to unify for the common good…

How would that look different from today?

Exactly how?