Democratic politicians who line up to support Judge Dugan often omit the details of the arrest. It may be worth reviewing a few of those details.
The complaint details how the officers sought to satisfy Dugan who was described as angry and uncooperative. That included (upon Judge Dugan’s insistence) locating the Chief Judge and confirming that they could facilitate an arrest in the hallways as public areas. Here is the account:
After showing ID and badges, [a shift sergeant with Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office] asked that any arrest wait until after the completion of the scheduled hearing before Judge DUGAN. As this was standard practice, Deportation Officer A and CBP Officer A agreed, and they were allowed to proceed unescorted to the public hallway outside of Courtroom 615. . . .
FBI Agent A displayed his credentials to the courtroom deputy and informed him that they were there to assist ICE in arresting Flores-Ruiz. They agreed that the arrest would take place after Flores-Ruiz’s court appearance. The agents then left the courtroom and took positions at different locations in the public hallway.
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Judge DUGAN and Judge A, who were both wearing judicial robes, approached members of the arrest team in the public hallway. Judge A’s courtroom is located adjacent to Judge DUGAN’s courtroom. Witnesses uniformly reported that Judge DUGAN was visibly upset and had a confrontational, angry demeanor. Judge DUGAN addressed Deportation Officer A and asked if Deportation Officer A was present for a court appearance. When Deportation Officer A responded, “no,” Judge DUGAN stated that Deportation Officer A would need to leave the courthouse.
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Deportation Officer A stated that Deportation Officer A was there to effectuate an arrest. Judge DUGAN asked if Deportation Officer A had a judicial warrant, and Deportation Officer A responded, “No, I have an administrative warrant.” Judge DUGAN stated that Deportation Officer A needed a judicial warrant. Deportation Officer A told Judge DUGAN that Deportation Officer A was in a public space and had a valid immigration warrant. Judge DUGAN asked to see the administrative warrant and Deportation Officer A offered to show it to her. Judge DUGAN then demanded that Deportation Officer A speak with the Chief Judge. Judge DUGAN then had a similar interaction with FBI Agent B and CBP Officer A. After finding out that they were not present for a court appearance and that they were with ICE, Judge DUGAN ordered them to report to the Chief Judge’s office.
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Deportation Officer A went inside a more private area of the Chief Judge’s office to speak with him on the phone. During their conversation, the Chief Judge stated he was working on a policy which would dictate locations within the courthouse where ICE could safely conduct enforcement actions. The Chief Judge emphasized that such actions should not take place in courtrooms or other private locations within the building. Deportation Officer A asked about whether enforcement actions could take place in the hallway. The Chief Judge indicated that hallways are public areas.
However, Judge Dugan decided that it was now time for her to get down from the bench and actively guide Flores-Ruiz through a non-public door to evade arrest:
The courtroom deputy recalled that upon the courtroom deputy’s return to the courtroom, defense counsel for Flores-Ruiz was talking to the clerk, and Flores-Ruiz was seated in the jury box, rather than in the gallery. . . .
The courtroom deputy then saw Judge DUGAN get up and heard Judge DUGAN say something like “Wait, come with me.”
Despite having been advised of the administrative warrant for the arrest of Flores-Ruiz, Judge DUGAN then escorted Flores-Ruiz and his counsel out of the courtroom through the “jury door,” which leads to a nonpublic area of the courthouse. These events were also unusual for two reasons. First, the courtroom deputy had previously heard Judge DUGAN direct people not to sit in the jury box because it was exclusively for the jury’s use. Second, according to the courtroom deputy, only deputies, juries, court staff, and in-custody defendants being escorted by deputies used the back jury door. Defense attorneys and defendants who were not in custody never used the jury door.
When the team realized that he had escaped, they pursued the suspect and only apprehended him after a chase in the streets of Milwaukee.
What these politicians do not explain is where the line should be drawn if judges can now actively assist in the escape of fugitives or wanted individuals. Could Dugan order court officers to hide Flores-Ruiz? Could she put him in her trunk and drive him out of the courthouse?
Once you leave the bench to assist in alleged illegality, you find yourself on a slippery slope.
This has happened before and, according to judges like Isham, it will happen again.
I previously wrote about the case of Massachusetts judge Shelley M. Richmond Joseph who was charged with allegedly helping an illegal immigrant evade ICE agents in April 2018. Joseph and court officer Wesley MacGregor were charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice, obstruction of justice, aiding and abetting and obstruction of a federal proceeding.
I was critical of the handling of the case. While Joseph was suspended for three years, charges were dropped in 2022 during the Biden Administration.
Many of us have called for a deescalation of the rhetoric and conflicts between the judicial and executive branches. We need to maintain respect for our courts even when we disagree with their decisions.
However, that is a mutual obligation. Judges have to maintain such respect by honoring their role as adjudicators rather than accomplices in criminal matters.
As Justice Louis Brandeis stated in Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438 (1928).:
In a government of laws, existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means — to declare that the government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal — would bring terrible retribution. Against that pernicious doctrine this court should resolutely set its face.
Hannah Dugan has shown precisely how “contagious” such law breaking can become when judges become “teachers” of a “contempt for law.” She yielded to the temptation to “become a law unto herself.” Frankly, it may be difficult to secure a conviction from a Milwaukee jury, but the Justice Department is seeking to offer a lesson of a different kind in bringing these charges.
The defense team for Judge Hannah Dugan is likely thinking, “This is not helpful.” While Dugan initially contested the allegations that she assisted an illegal immigrant to evade federal authorities in her Milwaukee courthouse, Democrats are heralding her as a type of Harriet Tubman guiding illegal immigrants to safety. Democratic State Rep Ryan Clancy even declared to a cheering crowd: “What Judge Dugan apparently did was what all of us should be doing.” That is precisely why federal authorities felt criminal charges were warranted despite Dugan’s judicial title.
According to the criminal complaint,…came to the courthouse to arrest Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, a Mexican immigrant facing three misdemeanor battery counts they intended to deport.
He is accused of hitting someone 30 times during a fight
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Hit victim THIRTY TIES and you only get a misdemeanor beef??? Criminal laws must operate differently in WI than the est of America….
In cities with Soros prosecutors, someone like that wouldn’t get charged at all.
wow, so Trump is mad at Amazon because Amazon is gonna show just how bad Trump‘s tariffs are. he’s not gonna be able to get away from his mess. This is all on Trump.
. . . how bad Trump’s tariffs are. . .
What an idiot.
You’re so right, George, punish America and promote all other nations.
I really love those Chinese and EU tariffs, not to mention all the others that penalize American enterprises.
Oh, I also love Chinese knock-offs and rip-offs of American IP; that’s great, isn’t it, George?
Ya gotta love a good cheater.
It’ll all come out in the wash; fair trade is only fair when it’s fair for all.
If Amazon is showing the impact of Tariffs on products, that means they are telling us which ones NOT to buy.
I am fine with that. I suspect lots of the rest of us are too.
“why didn’t Amazon do this when the Biden administration hiked inflation to the highest level in 40 years?”
–White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt
HAHAHAHAHAH! Leavitt just owned you and Amazon!!
“Instead of putting China first, I’m putting Michigan first, and I’m putting America first,”
— President Donald Trump,
This is what Americans voted for. Not Democrats, “We are ABOVE the law!!! Criminal illegals FIRST!!!”
Of particular note to me: despite the six person arrest team planning the operation in advance (including it appears an additional surveillance team mentioned in the affidavit), proactive discussions with the Chief Judge did not take place before the operation.
Two ICE arrests had taken place at the Milwaukee County Courthouse on April 4. Reaction to them was such that Milwaukee County leaders were reportedly already pursuing legislation to prohibit federal arrests in the courthouse.
When the arrest team arrived, they notified security. Security called a shift sergeant. When the arrest team assembled on the sixth floor, they notified the courtroom deputy. He, in turn, notified a supervisor.
Who notified Judge Dugan and/or the Chief Judge? A public defender “made” five of the six plainclothes federal officers and notified Judge Dugan’s clerk. The clerk finally notified Judge Dugan. Judge Dugan sent the agents (five of the six, anyways) to the Chief Judge. Was she angry at the time? I probably would have been; as a judge I’d be thinking “how absurd that so many people know of this plan except me?”
I don’t think that trip to the Chief Judge will be shown to be mere misdirection; two of the agents continued talking with the Chief Judge for over 15 minutes. They were still talking to the Chief Judge when they were notified Flores-Ruiz was in custody.
My conclusion is that sending the arrest team to the Chief Judge was appropriate given the protocol was still a work-in-progress.
What were Judge Dugan’s expectations of the outcome of sending five agents to the Chief Judge (which was quite near on the same public hallway)? Hard to say, especially since, as the Chief Judge stressed, the protocol as still in draft.
“the protocol still in draft/ a “work in progress” sounds like a proactive defense preparation to protect Dugan.
Even so, channeling Ruiz away from officers, and not knowing what kind of warrant is needed, among other things, does not excuse her conduct.
Where are you getting your information from?
especially since there have been two recent arrests involving immigrants at this same court house.
And how does any of that explain Judge Duggan’s obstructive conduct in slipping the defendant out a private side door to escape the courthouse while she knew federal agents were looking for him, and while the prosecutor and victim in the assault case were waiting in the courtroom?
The protocol is simple
ICE can not serve an administrative warrant in an active court room.
ICE can not use an administrative warrant to remove someone in custody of the state or local government.
They can do pretty much anything else they want.
That is not “the protocol” – that is THE LAW.
You can not change law by protocol.
And that was a part of the message ICE sent to the local courts.
Quit this F#$kery or go to jail.
Argument is insufficient. The Democrat party needs an exorcist.
Nailed it!
“So, my fears are for what I know is happening out there in streets all over the city. And now that we have leadership that is sort of indiscriminately determining who belongs and who doesn’t, and we know that those decisions aren’t being made with courts and with due process.”
– Michelle Obama
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“I have to say to white people, y’all really should be embarrassed by this. Y’all really need to do something, seriously.”
– Wanda Sykes
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Naturalization Acts of 1790, 1795, 1798, and 1802 (four iterations for maximal clarity and never legally abrogated).
United States Congress, “An act to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization,” March 26, 1790
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That any Alien being a free white person, who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years, may be admitted to become a citizen thereof….
– The American Founders, Congress, 1790
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WE ALL KNOW “WHO BELONGS AND WHO DOESN’T”
AMERICA HAS THE NATION, CONSTITUTION, BILL OF RIGHTS, AND IMMIGRATION LAW OF 1789/1790…
THE NATION, THE LAW, THE PEOPLE…
ESTABLISHED BY THE FOUNDERS OF AMERICA.
There is an eye opening exchange between one lawyer, Lisa Blatt, Respondent’s counsel, and several SCOTUS Justices. Blatt reflects the animus we are seeing in leftist lawyers and Judges like Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan. Bloomberg covered it but only mentioned the spat between Blatt and Gorsuch.
US Supreme Court Argument Dispute Turns Unusually Hostile
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/supreme-court-disabled-student-dispute-turns-unusually-hostile
The SCOTUS Transcript records Lisa Blatt as being very smarmy towards all of the Justices. Justices Gorsuch, Roberts, Jackson, Kavanaugh, Barrett, Sotomayor, all took her to task, but she never changed her tone.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2024/24-249_lkgn.pdf
starting on page 62, line 17, Gorsuch admonished her for accusing the Solicitor General and petitioner’s counsel for lying, Roberts laughed at her for missing items on the briefs, p 63, Jackson was fairly indignant with Blatt, page 65, Sotomayor asked if she violated SCOTUS rules, p 90
Blatt’s comment experienced advocate of the Supreme Court was truly cringe
page 62
17 JUSTICE GORSUCH: You — you believe
18 that Mr. Martinez and the Solicitor General are
19 lying? Is that your accusation?
20 BLATT: At — at oral argument,
21 yes, absolutely. It is not true that we —
22 JUSTICE GORSUCH: I think you should
23 be more careful with your words, Ms. Blatt.
24 MS. BLATT: Okay. Well, they should
25 be more careful in character —
page 63
1 mischaracterizing a position by an experienced
2 advocate of the Supreme Court, with all due
3 respect
Lots of hubris which is consistent with what we are seeing in the Democrat nominated Judges
That won’t win her any sympathy from any justice who isn’t already planning on voting for her to win the case. Not a smart move from an appellate advocate.
And, of course, the issue isn’t violation of statutory or fundamental law, but deference and fealty appropriately displayed to superior entities, aka, the Rulers of the Juristocracy.
Let’s face it, the Supreme Court has no concern with the “manifest tenor” of the Constitution.
It is more inclined to the principles of communism, which now dominate America, they being central planning, control of the means of production (i.e., unconstitutional regulation), redistribution of wealth, and social engineering, while adhering to the slogan of Karl Marx, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs,” in a borderless globalized nation among the United Nations, and under the “dictatorship of the proletariat (i.e., hired help).”
The American Founders are rolling over in their graves, seeing what has happened to their concept of individual freedom, their Constitution, and their Nation.
Test of Professor Turley/WordPress censor bot here.
Jonathan You got it all wrong! Judge Dugan did NOT assist “an illegal immigrant to evade federal authorities in her Milwaukee courthouse”. Here are the relevant facts:
First, when the 6 ICE, FBI and DEA agents sought to arrest Flores-Ruiz they went into Judge Dugan’s courtroom. They were told by the Court Sheriff Deputy that the Judge was in the middle a court hearing on assault charges against F-R. They were asked to step outside. They complied and took positions out in the public hallway. Nothing unusual or out of the ordinary at this point.
Later, as the criminal complaint states, Judge Dugan and another Judge confronted the arresting team out in the public hallway and asked if they had an arrest warrant signed by a judge. The ICE agent said “No” but he showed Judge Dugan an “administrative order”, not a court order. That alone would not suffice so Judge Dugan told the agents to see the Chief Judge who told them any arrest “should not take place in courtrooms or other private locations within the building” but could take place in “public areas”. Again, nothing out of the ordinary.
Next is the contested part. The DOJ complaint alleges Dugan ushered F-R and his attorney out the jury exit “which leads to a non-public area of the courthouse”. That is false. The jury door leads to a PUBLIC HALLWAY–coincidentally where 2 of the agents had been posted. F-R and his attorney then walked past the 2 agents, who apparently didn’t recognize F-R as the person they were looking for, and took a public elevator down to the entrance to the courthouse where they exited. It was outside the courthouse that F-R was eventually apprehended and arrested.
This is not a case where Judge Dugan secretly escorted F-R and his attorney down a private stairway and allowed them to escape undetected. I can’t think of a weaker case for Pam Bondi’s DOJ given these facts. In fact, I don’t think Bondi cares whether there will be a successful prosecution of the judge. Especially, since Bondi went on Fox News and tainted her case by bizarrely calling Judge Dugan “deranged”–claiming the judge thinks she is “above the law” and “if you are harboring a fugitive…we will come after you and prosecute you”. Prejudicial extra judicial statements like that by the AG of the US have no place when a federal prosecutor announces a criminal indictment. You never saw AG Garland or even SC Jack Smith prejudge a case with interviews on Fox News that taint a jury pool!
Frankly, I don’t think Pam Bondi actually cares whether she ever gets a conviction against Judge Dugan. She understands her job is to make a big news splash and shows her boss that she is going after DJT’s “enemies” in the judiciary. Of course, this is the exact opposite of what the head of the DOJ is supposed to do–the fair an impartial administration of justice. But in authoritarian regimes and dictatorships the chief enforcement office is supposed to serve the interests of the dictator–to prosecute “enemies of the state”. And under the DJT regime Pam Bondi is performing that task well!
Nice try, but no cigar. You tried the same mumbo jumbo with regard to Abrego and you and your ilk swore it was working…and then you dropped it.
Meanwhile back on planet Normal we have two victims and witnesses to the violent crimes watching as their attacker was let out to possibly be on the loose. How do you think they felt?
Keep talking and defending the 20 in our little game of 80/20 and see how it goes. Here’s a hint, check out the Washington Generals vs the Harlem Globetrotters. Second hint, you’re the Generals.
@Dennis
Your cut and paste whataboutism and regurgitation are so tired. Nobody cares. That’s the thing about a regime: if they want to spread their propaganda and lies they can’t stray from them. Hence we all see you are spewing the same nonsense literally verbatim. And like the boy who cried wolf, you have lied so many times, none of us believe pivots, either. Give it up.
Federal law enforcement didn’t need ANY warrant to arrest Flores-Ruiz in a public hallway. FR was present in the US after having been deported. This is a federal felony, committed in the officer’s presence.
Further, the feds had matched the prints from FR’s domestic violence bust to the prints taken in 2013. There was no evidence FR had been admitted lawfully. The feds had probable cause to arrest FR.
@michaeldix
Uhm actually they do need an arrest warrant.
Which they had. It was an administrative warrant which is all they needed.
Denise
I suggest you stop posting drunk or stoned.
Look, the relevant facts are not in dispute…although maybe for you because you can’t handle the truth.
The ICE/FBI agents were in the hallway. Judge was informed that they were there. Came out and told them to see the chief judge because they had an administrative arrest warrant, not a judicial one. Chief judge told them that they could arrest him in a public hallway but not in a court room, which is SOP.
Since the judge knew they were there. That they had a lawful arrest warrant. She purposefully escorted the illegal alien out thru a non-public exit of the court room where he was then able to bypass the agents and get out to the streets where he was confronted by other agents waiting for him.
Her actions were clear and intentional.
She is going to not only lose her job, but will be disbarred.
Dennis, read the actual affadavit. It is sworn under oath. Not made up like your nonsense.
I and others have addressed numerous errors in the idiotic representations of others.
Ruis was repeatedly deported and returned. ICE verified Ruis’s identity using the fingerprints from his arrest for assault.
They therefore KNEW beyond any doubt that The person in Kagan’s court was someone guilty of Fellony violations of US immigration law.
They do not need a warrant of any kind to pick him up. They do not need to give him a hearing – though they he did get a brief one.
He has likely already been deported. US immigration law allows the immediate warrantless arrest of anyone illegally in the country who has already been deported. The ONLY required due process is proof of identity – which the finger print match accomplished.
Ruis is not only a federal Felon – but he was in court before Dugan after beating the crap out of his girlfreind and roommate.
This is the person that the left wants to fight for ? This is the person Dugan has thrown away her carreer and risked jail for.
Regardless as you note ICE had an administrative warrant. That allows ICE to pick up ANYONE they can prove to an IJ court is an illegal alien.
It allows that person to be picked up in public or private. What it does NOT do, is allow ICE to remove an illegal alien from state or local custody, or interrupt a state or local court proceding to take that person into custody.
Whether Dugan likes it or not – while she need not cooperate, you may not interfere in the execution of that warrant – which she did.
She has been suspended, and barring a miracle will lose her job and likely her law license.
John Say,
Great comment and excellent take down of Dennis and his made for TV legal analysis.
Dennis
Please keep defending Ruis and Dugan.
Please undermine the credibility of the entire democratic party and all democratic judges.
Yours of course was shot years ago.
The correct answer for democrats and democrat judges is “How can we help ICE deport violent criminal, illegal aliens”
Wrong.
Criminal complaint details how Milwaukee judge helped illegal migrant sneak from court to evade feds
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/milwaukee-county-circuit-court-judge-helped-illegal-immigrant-sneak-out-court
You ever get tired of being so wrong so many times? If you were a lawyer like you claim, you were a very poor one.
I think I’m going insane.
I started watching “A Gentleman In Moscow,” and after a captivating introduction, the producers-cum-propagandists-cum indoctrinationists cast blacks as Bolsheviks, with dreadlocks nonetheless. Is that an accurate portrayal of the murderous communists in the 1917 Russian Revolution? This type of twisted Hollywood propaganda (i.e. TV, movies) is aimed at America constantly.
Then I watched the news as a judge obstructed justice, being complicit in a crime as an accomplice, accessory, and abettor with an illegal alien and felony defendant.
The communists are flagrantly incoherent, criminal, anti-American, and unconstitutional, yet still here and still functioning in America. Why?
Is this the country of the American Founders?
@Anonymous
This is generational and there a million fingers to point, many factors to highlight. It’s just too late to turn any of that back. All that matters is what we do now, across the board, and going forward.
I am speechless. I no longer know what to say anymore other than our DNC has descended into the furthest depths of globalist madness, and they must never hold power ever again in this country. If there are any sane liberals out there that disapprove of this flagrant chicanery, then now is the time to abandon the party as a lost cause. I repeat myself: madness. Pure, unadulterated, madness.
At this point, continuing to support American Democrats is supporting the madness, period. There are quite literally no exceptions, as is always the case with a regime. We can either sink or swim – much depends on the sane among us, but caught in the cacophony of lies and damned lies, finally realizing they are on the sinking ship, and the captains have been lying right to your face for years, even decades.
If you choose instead to swim, there are many that will take your hand. We can do this together.
THE MADNESS OF KING TRUMP IS THE REAL SCOURGE LOOSED UPON THE WORLD
To the mentally ill (like you), sanity looks like madness.
Figures
Study shows media coverage of Trump is 92% negative
When the Mainstream Media consists of 1 Conservative/right of center outlet, and at least 7 TDS outlets (and that’s just TV), it’s a wonder why they performed that study at all.
-Rabble
I doubt anyone can get into the muddled mind of Hannah Dugan during what was her most undisciplined moments , but it seems highly probable she seriously would like to have a do-over.
She should get the same do over as Roger Stone, Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon.
Nail On The head!
Roger Stone, Peter Navarro, and Steve Bannon!
So are judges allowed to help a person on trial out the back door, when he was there for assault?
Good question and asked in good faith.
Turley says that there should be respect between the executive and judicial branches–why not start at the top? Trump refuses to abide by any court rulings, insults judges, prosecutors and anyone who disagrees with him. AND, MAGA media, which includes Turley, goes along with this–just look at the comments on this blog, insulting judges and prosecutors–but never any criticism of Bondi, including her firing a prosecutor who had the audacity to truthfully answer a judge’s question. In this case, ICE did not have an arrest warrant issued by a judicial officer–Judge Dugan said that such a document was required and directed ICE to the Chief Judge’s office, who reiterated that they couldn’t arrest anyone in courtrooms or private areas. Meanwhile, was Judge Dugan REQUIRED to somehow hold Flores-Ruiz in custody, when ICE didn’t have the proper documentation?
Turley claims that praise for this judge allegedly facilitating Flores-Ruiz’s “escape” is the reason the Trump DOJ decided to criminally charge the judge. Turley–who do you think you’re kidding? Trump has abused the power he cheated and lied to get and has engaged in the most-extensive campaign of intimidation via abuse of power by a POTUS in our history– all part of Project 2025–and Americans don’t like it. He tries to intimidate colleges & universities, non-MAGA media, polling organizations, the judiciary, federal employees, and is trying to evade the Posse Comitatus Act by deploying our military on US soil. No wonder there are a record number of injunctions being issued by the courts–so what does MAGA media do? Accuse the judiciary of wrongdoing, like Turley’s post yesterday. Trump has even openly threatened to deport and incarcerate US citizens to El Salvador. All part of the intimidation process–and Americans aren’t going along with it. Excerpted from Axios–4/29/25:
“A majority of Americans say President Trump is a “dangerous dictator” who poses a threat to democracy and believe he’s overstepped his authority by actions such as the mass firing of federal employees, a new survey says.
Why it matters: The wide-ranging poll released Tuesday, on Trump’s 100th day in office, is the latest sign of him losing support for his immigration and economic policies — the two issues that largely fueled his election.
Only four in 10 Americans expressed favorable views of Trump after his first 100 days in office, according to the survey by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI).
And 52% agreed with the provocative statement that Trump “is a dangerous dictator whose power should be limited before he destroys American democracy,” the survey said.
That question provided a big warning sign for Trump: Most independents (56%) agreed that Trump is a “dangerous dictator,” suggesting that middle-of-the-road voters who helped put him back in office are abandoning him.
The survey is among those that have shown the most dissatisfaction with Trump’s push for mass deportations, sweeping tariffs, more control of colleges, and firing or laying off more than 100,000 federal employees.
Those priorities have led the new administration to unilaterally end diversity and equity programs, cancel student visas, and continue to keep at least one mistakenly deported man in a notorious El Salvador prison despite a court order to return him.
The big picture: The survey found that 83% of Republicans — a relatively low number for Trump — had favorable views of him and his actions, while 35% of independents and 8% of Democrats did.
Many respondents expressed alarm over his moves to reshape government, impose his tariffs and deport people without due process.
A majority of Black Americans, Latinos and Asian Americans agreed that Trump is a “dangerous dictator,” compared to 45% of white Americans — a reflection of the racial divisions Trump and his actions engender in such surveys.
What they’re saying: “Most Americans view Trump in dictatorial terms, and I think most Americans are concerned that American democracy is on the line,” PRRI CEO Melissa Deckman tells Axios.
“It’s only been 100 days into the Trump administration, yet we’ve really seen a pushback among most Americans to the Trump agenda.””
The issue here isn’t whether Flores-Ruiz should be deported–it’s ICE showing up in a state court without the proper documentation and trying to strong-arm an arrest.
Ugly women covet and are jealous and critical of beautiful blondes, no matter.
Gigi is one of the Lee sisters; first name’s Ug.
Which answers the question, “What is Gigi motivated by?”
Gigi
The judge broke the law. Get over it
Dustoff: WHAT law did Judge Dugan violate? Didn’t MAGA media spoon feed that fact to you? She and the Chief Judge both said that Flores-Ruiz couldn’t be arrested inside of a court room. Judge Dugan said they needed an arrest warrant signed by a judicial officer. They didn’t have one. Flores-Ruiz left via a public hallway, and walked right past two ICE agents who didn’t recognize him.
Is “MAGA” in the room with you right now? Is this mysterious “MAGA” exerting influence that has you going into hysterics? It’s quite apparent that you’re suffering from advanced-stage TDS, where this frightening entity “MAGA” is hiding around every corner. The needless paranoia is indicative of even MORE serious maladies, like a total loss of common-sense, an adolescent-level refusal of personal accountability, and a general blindness to reality. Unfortunately, it’s a terminal condition.
He was seen by two agents that *did* recognize him as he was leaving via the public hallway. One of them joined him in the public elevator.
Poor gigily …
Obstruction for starters.
That’s enough here.
Criminal complaint details how Milwaukee judge helped illegal migrant sneak from court to evade feds
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/milwaukee-county-circuit-court-judge-helped-illegal-immigrant-sneak-out-court
Facts matter loser.
Simply, did you miss the part where hallways are public spaces? The administrative warrant was valid for any public space. The judge was clearly wrong if the allegations are true. Why is that so difficult to admit?
Mark: did you miss the part where Judge Dugan asked for the arrest warrant and all they had was an “administrative warrant” not signed by a judge or judicial officer?
Nope, To charge Dugan with a crime they needed a Warrant or “arrest process” to cite the law. An administrative warrant meets the requirements of the law.
To arrest Ruis they needed … NOTHING – illegal aliens who have been deported and returned can be arrested and deported instantly without a warrant.
But had ICE sought Ruis without a warrant they could not have charged Dugan with abstruction.
The American people do have a problem . . . because of people like Gigi.
You don’t speak for “the American People”–see citation to current polling, supra.
Trump is president. He won the popular and elector vote. The American people chose him over word salad Harris and tampon Tim.
Get over it, loser.
Gigi,
Someday I will be shocked to find you have gotten something right.
But not today.
“Turley says that there should be respect between the executive and judicial branches”
There should be. Presidents are elected by the people they are entitled to th respect of the courts because of that.
Judges are supposed to EARN respect, by following the law and constitution. For the better part of 250 years they atleast tried.
Today they don’t.
Judges will get respect again when they earn it – by following the law and constitution. Not making things up as they go.
“Trump refuses to abide by any court rulings”
Most of these courts have not “ruled” – they have issued temporary orders – those are far from the same thing.
Regardless to the extent possible Trump has followed court orders, while appealing.
“insults judges”
who have lost respect.
They have done that to themselves.
” prosecutors”
He is pretty fond of Bondi.
Trump insults BAD prosecutors and judges.
“anyone who disagrees with him.”
Trump and Mahr got along fine even though they do not agree on many things.
“Bondi, including her firing a prosecutor who had the audacity to truthfully answer a judge’s question.”
The prosecutor in question was either completely incompetent or lied.
He denied there was evidence when even a simple google search finds plenty.
“In this case, ICE did not have an arrest warrant issued by a judicial officer”
Correct. For illegal immigrants who have already been deported and returned they do not need ANY warrant – check the law.
“Judge Dugan said that such a document was required”
False, the law does not require any warrant at all to arrest Ruiz.
Read the law.
“directed ICE to the Chief Judge’s office”
Correct – so she could shepard Ruis out of her courtroom without getting arrested.
“who reiterated that they couldn’t arrest anyone in courtrooms or private areas.”
I doubt that is what the cheif judge said – ICE already knows that and was not asking to arrest Ruis prior to the end of Dugan’s hearing.
” Meanwhile, was Judge Dugan REQUIRED to somehow hold Flores-Ruiz in custody”
No, but she stopped the hearings in here courtroom – Ruis’s case had not even been heard when she sheparded him out of the courtroom through the jury entrance.
Further had she taken Ruis into custody – ICE could not have touched him.
“when ICE didn’t have the proper documentation”
as noted – they needed no documentation.
Several on the left have claimed this was a setup – that is likely true.
ICE did not need a warrant, But without one they would have had to charge Dugan with lessor offenses.
ICE brought an administrative warrant hoping Judge Dugan would act stupidly – and she obliged.
The judge was criminally charge because she violated the law.
“has engaged in the most-extensive campaign of intimidation via abuse of power by a POTUS in our history– all part of Project 2025–and Americans don’t like it.”
So you say – Rassmusen says otherwise and they were right all along about the 2024 election.
But even CS pulled a pannel of Trump voters and tried to get them to say something bad about Trump and they said they were happy and even if there was a recession and recovery from the mess biden created took time – they still supported Trump.
” He tries to intimidate colleges & universities”
Ones that violate title 9 or the civil rights act.
“No wonder there are a record number of injunctions being issued by the courts”
There is so far no case that has reached a final decision that Trump has lost.
“Accuse the judiciary of wrongdoing,”
Don;t violate the law and you need nopt worry about acusations of wrong doing.
“A majority of Americans say President Trump is a “dangerous dictator” who poses a threat to democracy and believe he’s overstepped his authority by actions such as the mass firing of federal employees, a new survey says.”
ROFL
Gigi, you have been telling us Trump is unpopular forever. Yet he keeps winning.
And you cite lots of nonsense.
Just read the questions – only left wing nuts beleive anything like that.
Regardless numerous polls has Trump beating harris if there was a matchup today – by larger margins.
“The survey is among those that have shown the most dissatisfaction with Trump’s push for mass deportations, sweeping tariffs, more control of colleges, and firing or laying off more than 100,000 federal employees.”
So you survey Trump haters and get a result that says the majority of them hate Trump.
“Those priorities have led the new administration to unilaterally end diversity and equity programs,”
Because DEI violates the CRA and Title 9.
“cancel student visas”
Why are we allowing students that hate the US to come here to stir up trouble ?
I am sure there are plenty of students throughout the world who would love to come to the US and NOT stir up trouble.
Bring them.
“continue to keep at least one mistakenly deported man in a notorious El Salvador prison despite a court order to return him.”
False, False False and false.
Garcia was properly deported. He is NOT in CECOT, and SCOTUS scuttled the order to return him.
John Say,
Great comment and excellent take down of the loser by using and citing the law. Something Democrats chose to ignore when it suits them.
“Trump refuses to abide by any court rulings”
he has been working 100% within the actual law; AND, he has been capitulating with these nationwide injuncitons and doing the proper thing, which is challenging them through proper channels.
“, insults judges”
As is everyone’s 1A right to do so. We insult you, and you insult us on a daily basis. Doesn’t make it illegal to address those who are overstepping their bounds. Say you had a cat (you seem like a cat person) that you don’t want on your kitchen table. When the frisky feline hops up, what do you do? You correct their concepts of boundary. You shoo them off, spray them, or put aluminum foil on the surface. What the current admin is doing is laying down clear lines of aluminum.
-Rabble
This can hardly surprise Professor Turley, since according to Democrats, victims of crime are less deserving than perpetrators.
Is the duty of all patriotic Americans to fight and resist the fascist Trump regime.
Where is that feeble assumption written down?
It is the duty of this Marine to fight against lawless Democrats who’s lawless acts threaten the republic, rule of law and the Constitution.
Thank you.
‘Franke’ describe to us EXACTLY how the Trump Administration is ‘fascist’ ..you obviously have no clue of the meaning of this word..
Fascist in the ordinary sense is when the economic system entwined with the political system BUT the drug cartels run the Mexican government so that too is fascism.
Have a look at at communism.
In the US the talent is in the economy and not in government. Econ talent such as Musk v. Political talent of the squad as an example.
You mean Biden.. right
Fascism is a form of socialism. The one thing Trump is NOT is socialist. The uniting factor in Trump’s enemies is socialism.
As usually – you do not live in the real world.
The most fascist country in the world since the NAZI’s is Xi’s China. The next is Maduro’s Venezeula.
Trump is the actual ANTIFASCIST, while Antifa and the left are incredibly fascist.
“everything inside the state
nothing outside the state
nothing against the state”
Benito Musolini
Beware the Spin About a Judge’s Arrest for Allegedly Helping an Illegal Immigrant Escape
On the menu today: Welcome to another case where the spin from Democratic senators — “Donald Trump is arresting judges he doesn’t like!” — is completely at odds with the known facts.
By: Jim Geraghty ~ April 28, 2025
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/beware-the-spin-about-a-judges-arrest-for-allegedly-helping-an-illegal-immigrant-escape/
It’s a national security issue. Provide for the common defense is at play.
It’s pitiful.
Good piece of journalism Jonathan,
The quote from Justice Louis Brandeis strikes at the heart of the problems We face:
“… In a government of laws, existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. …”
[Justice Louis Brandeis stated in Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438 (1928) ]
There are No Consequences because government fails to observe the law scrupulously.
Hunter Biden violated the laws 100’s of time, with every Line of Cocaine he used, with making ‘deals’ with Ukrainian and Chinese Businesses, and dabbling in the Affair’s of the State,
without filing/registering his FARA forms (Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended,. 22 U.S.C. § 611 et seq.). His actions with Burisma and the influence peddling between him and his Father (Pres. Joe Biden), were part and parcel of launching the Ukrainian-Russo War we have today. But there were ‘No-Consequences’. hence: “In a government of laws, existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. ”
That be one example of hundreds of thousands examples that which ‘fails to observe a government of laws’. One example that has cost millions of Lives. (you could list a number of Wars here that apparently were founded upon lies – lets skip to the point).
‘THERE ARE’ individuals within the Government at all levels that feel they are ‘above the laws’. Of which, the ‘government of laws’ are circumvented and No-Consequences’ are applied. Judge Dugan has demonstrated that she is one of those individuals that will supersede our ‘government of laws’, remaining hypocritical of her sworn oath. She should not be allowed to preside over any Defendant, due to her hypocrisy and decisive bias. She should be removed from the Bench and a review of all her cases to determine if they are to be overturned.
Actions speak louder than words. She stands in Contempt of the Bench and America.
Justice Louis Brandeis made this statement in 1928 when there were approximately 1776 Federal Statues. The FDR was elected and one year later the number doubled and now is the hundred thousand plus range.
Of course, the entire American judiciary is impartial.
#. I don’t think any young people read this blog but if you’re young get a trade from a JC and move out of high school after 10th grade. At 18 you’re ready for work having attended the JC in the 11th and 12th grade year. Get a passport and work visa for another still civilized nation and scram.
Sorry old folks, poor, infirm…
When will the domestic abuse people get their day in court? The shero was to continue that day but decided Ruiz needed to leave? No consult with the aggrieved attorney? Eh, they don’t matter…
You do well to encourage those who do not love America to leave, although whether there are other “civilized nations” is something of an open question.
As the United States , I say United States and not America because Mexico and Canada are part of North America, takes a nose dive young people may be advised to leave while loving the US. The systems have been overwhelmed.
PS, there’s been a big push in calling the the location “The Americas” , as well. Normally that’s known as the western hemisphere but those seeing cultural differences choose the America’s. I don’t.
It would require an act of God for anyone to see the United States again. I’m not optimistic.
The demons will actually be rounded up and thrown back into the pit. They get out every 1000 years. You see the reason…
The charges against Dugan are bogus and will fail.
She is charged with 1 count each under 18 USC 1505 and 18 USC 1071.
neither of these charges will hold up.
18 USC 1505 is “Obstruction of an official proceeding.”
The Supreme Court has defined this statute as applying ONLY to Congressional investigations.
18 USC 1071 is “Concealing a Person from Arrest”
There are four essential elements that the government must prove for a conviction.
In this case the most important elements are:
1. The government must establish that a Judicial Warrant was issued for the fugitive.
The ICE agents only had an administrative warrant, which is a civil warrant, and not a Judicial Warrant. An administrative warrant is not considered to be a Judicial warrant for the purposes of 18 USC 1071.
A Judicial Warrant can only be issued by a Federal judge, ICE could have asked for a Judicial warrant, and it almost certainly would have been granted.
BUT THEY DIDN’T BOTHER TO GET JUDICIAL WARRANT.
Thus the government fails to establish this required element for conviction.
2. The government must establish that the defendant (Dugan) must have knowledge of a Judicial warrant.
There was no Judicial warrant, and the agents told Dugan that they did not have a Judicial warrant.
Thus the government fails to establish this required element for conviction.
3. The government must establish that the defendant (Dugan) concealed or harbored the fugitive.
The DOJ manual defines these acts as follows.
The third element that the government must prove to establish a section 1071 offense is that the defendant actually harbored or concealed the fugitive. The courts have uniformly held that 18 U.S.C. § 1071 does not prohibit all forms of aid to a fugitive. Instead, what is generally required to establish a violation is “any physical act of providing assistance, including food, and shelter, and other assistance to aid the prisoner in avoiding detection and apprehension.” United States v. Silva, 745 F.2d 840, 849, (4th Cir. 1984), cert. denied, 470 U.S. 1031 (1985), quoting United States v. Kutas, 542 F.2d 527, 528 (9th Cir. 1976), cert. denied, 429 U.S. 1073 (1977) (18 U.S.C. § 1072 case). The following instruction for the meaning of the terms “harbor” and “conceal” was upheld in United States v. Whitman, 480 F.2d 1028 (6th Cir.), cert. denied, 414 U.S. 1026 (1973):
Dugan did not engage in a physical act to conceal the fugitive. The key here is that 18 U.S.C. § 1071 does not prohibit all forms of aid to a fugitive. The aid must take the form of a physical act. Dugan did not engage in a physical act of concealment. She simply told the agents to go away, which is perfectly legal.
These charges are doomed to failure.
They will be dismissed.
People here are howling about obstruction of justice, obstruction of law enforcement in their official duties, aiding and abetting a criminal.
However this is nothing more than irrelevant noise.
These charges all emanate from specific statutes, and Dugan is not charged under ANY of those statutes.
Bondi and Patel know perfectly well that these charges are bogus. They are not interested in a conviction. All they want is the publicity from arresting a sitting judge to keep the MAGA mob and Trump agitated about a “corrupt judiciary.
The charges were brought with a Criminal Complaint before getting a Grand Jury indictment. They still need to get a Grand Jury indictment within 21 days of the arrest. The fact that they went straight for a public Criminal Complaint is nothing more than political theater to keep the MAGA mob agitated.
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Ah, the Professor Turley/WordPress censor bot is back.
Nay, it never left.
In fact Bondi and Patel probably brought these bogus charges knowing that they would likely be dismissed by the presiding judge.
This would further feed their narrative of a “corrupt judiciary”.
Further to my comments at 11:23 am
Superstar Paul Clement has joined Dugan’s defense team
He was George W. Bush’s Solicitor General.
Clement has been dubbed by some “the LeBron James of lawyers.”
He is just one of the 4 high profile, superstar lawyers on her team
This case is going nowhere.
What about the American exclusionary concept…
Yeah, it’s going nowhere; they’ll engage in “venue corruption.”
Of course, President Trump was “convicted” of thirty-four (34), count ’em, “fake” felonies in New York, New York, the communist capital of America.
How would that case have gone in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho?
America requires a judicial revolution as a “deportation nation” addressing illegal immigration since January 1, 1863.
‘Anonymous’ from the darkside.. you can quote all the cases you desire to satisfy your very active Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS’) , however, the Chief Judge obviously did not see the need for a Judicial Warrant or would have directed the Agents to go in that direction. Where were you when this criminal (yes, criminal, one who broke the law by re-entering the USA after being deported under Obama..) was being deported under Obama? Why weren’t you out there writing down cases to help the cause then? Why is Trump being resisted for doing Exactly what Obama did ? Prof. Turley is correct basically pointing out that this ‘oppositon’ & ‘resistance’ from Democrat Party radical activists has no place in the Administration of Law. A line was drawn by this judge when she left being a judge in the middle of a trial and became a radical activist, leaving the State Prosecution and defendants just sitting there… and even though she will probably just get a hand slap or two and be back on the Bench.. it was correct that she be arrested so that the kind of complete lawlessness she had facilitated would stop, not be championed. Again, where were all of you during the Obama Administration deportations?
#. It’s very similar to a 5th grade classroom with half the class being juvenile delinquents. Probably the reason test scores are so low.
‘Anonymous’ form the darkside at 11:23 am.. following my reply at 1:01 pm .. still waiting for you to stand up and defend your idea that the charges here are ‘bogus…’ vis-a-vis telling us why the case will fall due to a labyrinth of legal technicalities.. specifically why it was OK for Obama to deport this same migrant.. and now it is not OK for Trump to deport him after he illegally broke back into the country again after being deported by Obama – this alone makes him a criminal… Surely with your encyclopedia command of cases you can answer our basic questions so we can understand WHY whoever the President is should even be a factor………………………….? as this is indeed your meta-language.. we can only deduce from what you’ve said: OK for Obama, not OK for Trump… hence.. TDS rules here, not sound logic.
Anonymous:
You have argued, “The charges against Dugan are bogus and will fail. She is charged with 1 count each under 18 USC 1505 and 18 USC 1071.”
Then you argue, “neither of these charges will hold up….18 USC 1505 is ‘Obstruction of an official proceeding.’ The Supreme Court has defined this statute as applying ONLY to Congressional investigations.”
I believe the actual language states, “……pertaining to pending proceedings before Congress AND (emphasis mine) Federal departments and agencies.”
DHS is a very important “department” n’est ce pas?
And isn’t Immigration and Customs Enforcement listed as an “agency” under DHS?
Wanna try again? Thanking you in advance, lin
Lin,
Thank you for bringing the facts and citing actual laws to take down all these wannabe, cut and paste loser lawyers. You and other actual lawyers deconstruct their arguments with common sense, logic and citing real, actual laws. Once you own them, they quickly run away.