FBI arrests judge in escalation of Trump immigration enforcement effort

This is not okay.
- This is a coup

And thus, the Night of Long Knives begins.*
Edit: The AP, as of 15 min ago has posted an update: "Dugan was taken into custody by the FBI on Friday morning on the courthouse grounds, according to U.S. Marshals Service spokesperson Brady McCarron. She appeared briefly in federal court in Milwaukee later Friday before being released from custody. Her next court appearance is May 15."
Thank goodness, she has been released- even if she is still going on trial for a trumped-up charge.
- accusation is:
  “intentionally misdirected federal agents away” from Eduardo Flores Ruiz as agents were attempting to arrest him at her courthouse last week.
  so this isn’t about her ruling against trump, but her directly protecting an individual from ice….
  so it’s not the long knives yet, she a hero, but it’s not the mass revenge murders… yet
  
  That's just the official language. They may not kill her, but they are going to remove anyone that gets in their way is what this says to me.
  
  It doesn't have to match. It just has to rhyme.
  
  She asked the ICE agents to wait for the end of the hearing to arrest him.
  So they arrested her.
  
  so this isn’t about her ruling against trump, but her directly protecting an individual from ice….
  Actually it's very indirect. The accusation implies that she told ICE agents "he's over there!" and scattered like a cartoon distraction. In reality, she told them they had no jurisdiction in the court, and that they had to go talk to her boss.
  That's not misdirection, that's just normal workplace behavior. They don't have jurisdiction in the courtroom, therefore they were not pursuing justice in the courtroom, therefore it can't be obstruction of justice to tell them to fuck off.
- The problem with the MAGA/Nazi comparison is not that MAGA isn't as evil, it's that they're less competent.
  
  And why is that a problem? It sounds like a hindrance to them, which is a definite good thing.
  
  it’s that they’re less competent
  Not sure if that's true actually, the Nazis were supremely incompetent as well. It just doesn't take that much competence to smash a delicate balance like the separation of powers. You basically need control of one the three branches of government and you are good to try, Trump controls two and this news is about him smashing the third.
- Loading my firearms as we speak
  
  Mine stay loaded. 6 mags for the rifle. It seems like overdoing it to my wife but I will not go to a camp. The shit RFK has proposed puts people like me in danger, even though I'm a cis straight white male. Even if I wasn't on the list so to speak, I would be armed and ready because the people they have targeted are my countrymen. Citizen or not.
  Fucking idiot racists can't get it through their heads that they're not going to stop with brown and trans people.
- It's like a program and it concerns me.
  
  Do you mean pogrom?
- Nah, this is more akin to the Gleichschaltung. The Night of the Long Knives was the Nazis purging their own.
  
  I disagree- I think Gleichschaltung has been underway since day one. This is a much more heinous overstep of the executive branch, imo

ICE walked into that courthouse without a judicial warrant - no judge authorized the attempted arrest of the defendant, who I might add voluntarily appeared for his court hearing.
This is the real threat, folks. This is one of many vicious cycles they want to start. Arrest immigrants at their own hearings, when they are already complying with the will of the state. Convince others not to show up to court, make them fear any and all interactions with the state, then accuse them of being fugitives and label all of them criminals by default.
An administrative warrant doesn't mean shit to a judge. She had every right to tell them to go talk to her boss, and in the meantime? She opened the back door.
That's it. That's the crime worthy of arresting a judge. A middle aged Milwaukee woman doing her goddamn job.
She opened a door and let the defendants - who had entered her courtroom legally and voluntarily - depart safely.
These are thugs, these are kidnappers, these are criminals. Obstructing ICE is NOT obstructing justice, because ICE is the one breaking laws and stripping away the rights of every American. They act without legal authority, they act without judicial approval, and they act without any regard for freedom, or rights, or basic human dignity.
It is the goddamn right and responsibility of every American to obstruct ICE at every opportunity, because there is no justice when Judges are forced to bow to them.
- I'm not saying any of your points aren't salient but I saw this story and thought nothing of it, at first. Take it for what it is, the details aren't entirely clear to me, yet. I'm not going to be like the GOP and follow marching orders just because I read a comment online.
  Edit:
  I expected the down votes and it's really sad you won't even hear me out.
  Edit2:
  How's does it feel to be a victim of media narrative? Just letting them jerk your chain because you have no chill?
  
  People are likely willing to hear you out, but you haven't exactly made a point to hear out.
  What details do you find unclear? From what I've read, the judge notified ICE that they didn't have a valid judicial warrant to arrest their target. After that, the judge allowed ICE's target to leave the courthouse, presumably because the immigrant was not required to comply.
  There's a growing pattern of ICE attempting to take advantage of people's lack of ability to identify a judicial warrant to pressure them into compliance and/or arrest. I think it's reasonable to caution anyone that has to interact with any agency that's known to be shady.
  
  The stance is correct. ICE as an agency is a threat to our democracy. Debating the nuance doesn't help with the point that ICE is able to internally determine who needs to go. With the state of the immigration system and threat to due process people should be standing up to what they believe is wrong. Personally, I think what the judge did was right when the man was there on a pretrial hearing for a seperate criminal matter.
  As to the case, a previous 2011 directive for ICE to avoid arrests in or near courthouses was rolled back by Trump. That's the same one that included sensitive areas such as schools. So now, under executive direction, they can enter public spaces such as courthouses to effect arrests. This has the chilling effect of having persons accused of crimes in local communities avoid court dates and further erodes due process.
  Alltogether, ICE wasn't wrong here procedurally and by the the letter of the law. However morally it's all sideways. We don't know if that man would have been transported to another state detention center, given access to a lawyer or even allowed to contact his family. Seeing how the admin has operated, he likely would never have gotten a court date to even review his immigration case.
  If you interfere with ICE you can face criminal charges. That's what they're pinning on this judge.
  So the system by design is f-d up. Notice how on a federal level no officials or anyone else has been arrested for violating due process rights of individuals in those high profile deportation cases? It's a crazy double standard and the administration will likely pump this case up to show that they have all the power--including (albeit here with a local judge) over the judiciary.
  Again, ICE is wrong and what the government is doing to immigrants is wrong. It's a broad threat to our rights and they're just getting bolder by the day. Operating legally does not mean you are operating morally.
  
  Okay, I'll hear you out. What details do you need clarified to be concerned that ICE is interrupting court to arrest people?

Please remember: the ICE “arrests” are KIDNAPPINGS BY NON-UNIFORMED CIVILIANS. UNTIL PROVEN OTHERWISE.
If you see a gang of 4 dudes with beards and guns and jeans and polo shirts … treat it like the kidnapping it is.
- I get your sentiment and feel the same way, but that’s just adding death to the equation. I honestly think that is exactly what they want. If they detain you, you still have access to lawyers and others who are working to protect these people. If you’re dead, you can’t to any of that. You can’t defend yourself. The action alone will make you a ‘terrorist’ and therefore justify their actions.
  It fucking sucks.
  
  If they detain you, you still have access to lawyers and others who are working to protect these people.
  Have you been skipping the news for weeks?
  
  access to lawyers
  I don’t believe it would work out that way if you are detained and don’t already have numbers lined up. They are already skipping due process anyway..
  I don’t want violence. I just want to remind people that these are illegal government kidnappings.
  It. Fucking. Sucks. Indeed.
  
  You wont get a chance to defend yourself when they bag you up and send you to El Salvador. You can die in the streets protecting yourself or you can die in a gulag 5000 miles away. Your choice
  
  If an ICE agent dies they can't harm anyone else
  
  El Salvador is a death sentence, with a load of abuse on top. Better to break some ICE and be ended, than to live out your final days in a concentration camp.
  
  An absurd suggestion. ICE agents looking to disappear you are merely volunteers for America's new Necronaut Program. Necronauts are needed for the upcoming assassination of God, and invasion of heaven.

Senators, governors, and mayors of "sanctuaries" are going to be close behind.
- Once the non-loyal judges are imprisoned, everyone else who isn't white and Republican will also be on the chopping block.
- I wonder if militias need to grow because I believe Trump will use everything in his power to destroy the liberals and any opposing force. Military could soon fraction and people will take sides, as one party wants to protect the constitution while the others oppose. Remeber our country was born based on the constitution....We are on the right side of history cause it reflects core American values. You decide to errode that then your not a true American. They will always be traitors considering they are freely defying the constitution now...fuck them and I cant wait til their day comes.

I don't see any mention of a warrant.
Not that I'm surprised by that, but to say this is an "escalation" is an understatement.
This is a declaration of absolute power.
Edit: she was released on bond. Meaning a magistrate validated a warrant. Who signed the warrant?
Editl 2: Magistrate Dries did, yesterday. FBI Agent Lindsay Schloemer filed the complaint. Interestinginly Dugar wasn't the only judge who told the ICE officers to fuck off (in legal terms). She just told them then defendant and his attorney they could leave because ICE didn't have the correct warrant.

This is how civil war starts. If the judiciary starts issuing arrest warrants over this unlawful kidnapping, they may need to deputize officers that are not under the control of the trump admin which could pit our armed forces against each other. Best case scenario is the judiciary finds the arrest unlawful and the FBI backs down because they're being threatened with contempt.
- I fear the majority of trigger-pullers are pro-trump and pro-deportation, no matter where they live. I fear that "revolution" will entail the United States' progressives getting absolutely brutalized until the regime seizes total control.
  
  Valhalla before El Salvador.
  
  you might be surprised. there are those who are very open about owning weapons, but there are just as many who do not flaunt what they're equipped with. there are still lots of reasons left-leaning people might own guns, like hunting, self defense, pure hobby shooting, etc. i think progressive people have been stereotyped as anti-gun because they tend to be anti-kids-getting-shot-in-school, but they're not quite the same thing.
  it's possible progressive might be out-gunned, but it's by no means a guarantee.
  
  Learn how to use the tools at your disposal y’all.
  
  They may be able to defend the farmland but they won't be able to hang when it gets to urban combat.
- Buy guns
- You're not wrong, but this has nothing to do with the armed forces. I went down a rabbit hole at one point regarding what a "duly sworn" officer is. My conclusion was that if a judge needed to have someone arrested, they can reach out to any public police officer who has sworn an oath to the Constitution. Each state has its own groups of duly sworn law enforcement officers, and if a Federal judge doesn't trust the US Marshals (who are part of the DoJ) they can likely reach our to State or local police to enforce their orders.
  
  That's the problem. If a deputized officer that is part of a local police force or national guard ends up having to arrest members of the DoJ, it could result in a standoff and give an excuse to our Cheeto in chief to declare martial law. I really fucking hope that doesn't happen or that our generals force him to back down but I very much see that as a possibility.
- Qualified immunity applies to the executive branch, not to the judiciary. Cops aren't getting arrested for this.

America, this is your five alarm fire. If everything else wasn't enough to get you moving, dear God please let this be it.
Get out and protest. Get talking to the other people at those protests. Build your network. You're going to need it for what is coming.

Hey guys, it’s a really good sign when judges are getting arrested, right? Very normal and functioning country? 😬

So they have arrested two judges. ICE and FBI are traitors.
- People should start reporting illegal immigrant MA13 members at the homes or Republican officials

Trump’s Night of the long knives coming next

This is a clear authoritarian signal and power grab, but trying to think practically since I'm getting exhausted with my own powerless exasperation with nothing to show for it:
To get an arrest warrant, you typically would need a judge to sign off on it. So either (a) another judge signed the warrant to arrest this judge, or (b) they falsely arrested the judge without a proper warrant.
I think (b) is possible with how slipshod Trump officials are, but more likely they followed the letter if not the spirit of the law, so (a). That suggests that there may be a pocket judge signing spurious warrants for Patel. This also makes more sense, since they likely need cover when assisting ICE, so they'd want someone in that role.
So in a healthy system, first would be Congress forcibly removing Patel. Probably every GOP congressperson's response here will be "I haven't heard about that, now I'll walk away down this hall casual-like because frankly nobody is going to hold me accountable." The other less direct approach would be to identify this judge then there may be a removal process. What other things can be done here short of revolution?
- The article doesn't mention anything about a warrant. If there is a warrant, there is a record of the judge that signed it.
  And that judge would have to have jurisdiction I think. So in either case, the answer is be prepared for shit
  Edit: She was released on bond, meaning a judge validated the warrant, meaning there's a warrant, and a judge who signed it. This is bad.

Oh thank God! I through the news was quiet today! So now we're arresting judges. Checks and balances go out the window. Now its just a clear dictatorship.
- We've had a few evil weeks, I thought we were going to get a dumb week for once.

First they came for the immigrants, But I said nothing, Because I'm not a filthy immigrant.
Then they came for the protestors, But I said nothing, Because protesters are libtards.
Then they came for the judges and politicians, But I said nothing, Because they are all corrupt and evil.
Then they came for the minorities, But I said nothing, Because they deserve it!
And then they came for me, Because I was a gullible tool.
A future MAGAT survivor.

Increased danger to the public?
If dude was already out and about and minding his business, dude continuing to be out and about keeps the amount of danger just about the same.
- He was also not out and about and minding his business, he was already in the courthouse in front of the judge. There was no danger to the public because he was at the courthouse. If anything, ICE created the danger by chasing him out of the courthouse and escalating the situation.

More info on the circumstances: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/23/ice-arrested-mexican-immigrant-after-hearing-before-judge-dugan/83233154007/
Last week's arrest marked at least the third time in recent months that federal immigration agents have come to the courthouse with arrest warrants. In March and early April, two people were arrested by ICE officials in the hallways of the courthouse.
Following the earlier arrests at the courthouse, county officials and stakeholders expressed concerns about the impact ICE's presence has on immigrants' accessing the justice system and other services at the courthouse.
"The last thing we want is to interfere with the legal process or sow doubt in those summoned to the courthouse about whether or not they will receive fair, impartial justice," Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley said at the time.

I know trumpers won’t ever hear about this or if they do it will be a completely twisted story and they’ll think the judge shot at the ice agents or something but the amount of mental effort it has to take to not see this as a tinpot dictator move is unbelievable. It’s hard to believe people this dumb walk among us and go to work and everything

Yeah this is pretty fucking blatant

"Judges? Where we're going, we won't need judges." proceeds to fly away in the original Volkswagen

My local branch of the ICE Enforcement and Removal division is not answering calls. It rings and rings without end.

~~F B I~~ ⚡️⚡️

So shoot first, ask questions later?
- Shoot first, ask questions never.
  You want to ask questions? You get shot first
  
  Ah, si, si, Bien. Yo comprendo la instructions.

Hey, that's a Rogue State! We should liberate it from all sides!

I said this before…when the fuck do we rise up? Or are we going to sit in the pot and boil?

It has started. It has been out of control for some time I can guess it will end badly for our American cousins and also the world.

Onward we march in goose step with history

So what do we do... We know what the response should be.. but are we gonna do it...
- No, you won't.
  There will be some soft protestations, admittedly in huge numbers, but that will be it. Then you'll accept this as normal.
  It will get worse and worse over the years and a lot of you will be looking around for someone else to do something, which won't happen.
  Then in 2028, though probably earlier, OrangeCunt will declare himself president for life and you'll all again look around for other people to "sort it all out". However there will be no one left to do anything as they will have been arrested, scared off, or paid off etc.
  Then you'll realise that you've been taken over by the weakest, stupidest schoolyard bully in history. And you'll be the laughing stock on a global scale.
  Yet all of this could have been avoided if he had been arrested and put in to court for the treasonous shit in 2021.
  Hell, it still can be avoided now, but it'll take the average American to have a backbone and get out there and fight. Which also won't happen.
  
  Tldr.. and don't pretend you know anything about me from some vague comments online. You live in your fear and stay paralyzed believing everyone will and live in your shame of being a coward. It won't be me.

Seems like a good way to stop all non citizens from accessing the legal system.
- All they have to say is you’re not a citizen.
- They’re coming for us all citizens or not

Hannah Dugan 2028
- She might be Supreme Justice material. Here's hoping that Sanders/AOC considers Hannah Dugan for placement.