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Democrat "Rule of Law" personified. If a person had vandalized a 20-year old beater Volvo in MN belonging to a Dem Staffer with "Coexist" stickers, they'd be getting months of jail and probation at a minimum.

In case you somehow missed the excitement, here’s what actually happened. About eight days ago, back on April 18th, Milwaukee Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan was presiding over an unremarkable criminal case involving a Mexican national charged with three counts of battery and domestic abuse. A couple of his victims were seated in the gallery waiting to testify. The accused, Jose Flores-Ruiz, was an illegal alien already deported in 2013, but it didn’t stick and he came back to commit more crimes.

Because of all the media misinformation, here is a link to the government’s complaint so you can read it for yourself.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/d2msoiwnkhjgh3pwbofyo/Doc.-01-Criminal-Complaint-USA-v.-Dugan.pdf?rlkey=7oxwjlxen2ghys7k4wcyd62xh&e=1&dl=0

Note that a federal judge signed Judge Dugan’s arrest warrant— she had ample due process. Or, if you’re more of a listener, here’s Pam Bondi’s explanation about both arrests from a Fox interview yesterday (8:00).

Anyway, before Flores-Ruiz’s hearing started, court staff snuck word to Judge Dugan got word that FBI, CBP, and DEA agents had staked out the gallery and the hallway outside the courtroom, and were waiting for the hearing to finish so they could arrest Lopez. This enraged the judge (“this is absurd!”). So she sprang up —or at least attempted a rough approximation of ‘springing’— and moved ponderously into action. She first adjourned the hearing, grabbed the judge in the courtroom next door for backup and, after demanding to see the agents’ warrant, ordered them to go to the Chief Judge’s office. They complied.




While agents were on the phone with the Chief Judge, Judge Dugan’s courtroom deputy came over and warned them the judge was trying to “push through” Lopez’s hearing, to get him out of the building while the agents were tied up talking to the Chief Judge. Meanwhile, back in her courtroom, Judge Dugan ordered Lopez and his attorney to come up to the bench, and after a frenzied, whispered conversation, personally escorted them out the courtroom’s private back door reserved for jurors and prisoners.

Lopez fled using a back elevator and sprinted off down 9th street. Fortunately, an alert agent spotted the serial crimedoer leaving. The team scrambled and a dramatic foot chase ensued. They finally tackled Lopez near State Street and 10th.

Yesterday morning, the FBI filed a federal complaint and shortly thereafter arrested Judge Dugan at the courthouse. She’s charged with obstruction of ICE proceedings (18 U.S.C. § 1505) and harboring or concealing a person to prevent discovery and arrest (18 U.S.C. § 1071)— both serious felonies.

The federal criminal complaint identifies several witnesses who saw everything that happened.

Later in the day, Judge Dugan was released without bond after making her first appearance in federal court. If convicted, she certainly can’t be a judge, and will probably lose her law license. Even without a verdict, the pending charges are a huge headache for the Chief Judge. How can Judge Dugan continue to preside over other criminal cases while she’s under indictment herself?

Will Wisconsin’s left-leaning Supreme Court remove her?

https://thefederalist.com/2025/06/27/justice-barrett-takes-a-flamethrower-to-kbjs-reality-challenged-dissent-in-birthright-citizenship-case/

Trump’s lawyers are (finally) going on offense. Yesterday, the Washington Post ran a tantalizing story headlined, “DOJ sues all federal judges in Maryland over deportation order.”

The Chief Judge for the District of Maryland entered a standing order granting automatic deportation stays for any new immigration cases filed in that district. And guess where they’re all being filed now?

Instead of backing down or enduring endless appeals, yesterday, Trump’s DOJ sued the entire Maryland bench for interfering with executive foreign policy authority. Every single judge was named as an individual defendant. I’m not sure that’s ever happened before.

It’s one thing to appeal a ruling. That’s normal. But suing every judge in the district is doctrinal civil war. Beyond legal positioning, it argues that certain judicial practices themselves are unlawful executive interference and beyond the courts’ constitutional authority.

The new lawsuit focuses just on the legality of the standing order, which grants relief to unknown future parties even before their cases are filed. Which makes it a lot more like a law than like judging.

Navarro, 75, was the first White House official in history to be imprisoned for a contempt of Congress conviction.

He served a four-month sentence in a federal prison in Miami last year.

By contrast, the very Department of Justice that set a chilling precedent with its prosecutions of Navarro and Bannon (who also served four months in a federal prison in Connecticut last year) gave itself a pass when then-Attorney General Merrick Garland similarly was held in contempt for defying a congressional subpoena to hand over embarrassing audio recordings of Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur.

As a senior White House adviser on Jan. 6, 2021, Navarro’s conviction should have had a higher bar than Bernal’s or any other former adviser’s.

But the Biden DOJ and one of their pet DC judges, Obama-appointed District Judge Amit Mehta, ignored Navarro’s legitimate concerns about executive privilege and punished him for his loyalty to his boss, President Trump. ...

More evidence is expected to emerge about the scheme to target Trump and his allies while covering up for Joe Biden. Internal FBI emails and documents continue to surface now that the Trump administration has access to hidden troves of information, and Republicans have control of Congress, with a newfound ruthless determination to hold wrongdoers to account.