Wow! Trump Arrest of Judge Blows Up in His Face
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What happened in the FBI arrest of Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan?
the fbi arresting a state court judge alleging that a state court judge obstructed an immigration arrest operation that the feds wanted to do inside the judge's courtroom which the fbi had then announced on twitter now x in which the attorney general then posted on Twitter, now X, it's a sentence that would be unfathomable, Harry Littman, in normal times. The very idea that the FBI would be kind of lurking outside of a state court judge's courtroom to try to do an infiltration operation against In a criminal proceeding that a judge was presiding over, this happened just to remind everybody what I'm talking about. Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan presiding over her daily docket last week.
It was a case before her involving an alleged domestic violence incident. And, you know, these judges go through lots of cases. It's not just one case usually on the day. And they go through their full docket of criminal cases. The feds, the FBI, they want to go into the courtroom. And for a state court judge in our system of federalism, I've never heard of without coordination or anything like sting operations taking place in state court judges' courtroom. The allegations, if you just accept all the allegations basically being said by the FBI and DOJ as true, the feds last week, they want to get into the courtroom. Judge Dugan basically has this individual who's there, Eduardo Flores Ruiz, who ICE and the feds want to detain. And the judge accepting all the allegations as true, which we don't necessarily know is the case from the feds and the DOJ,
The judge then basically says to the individual, you know, you can go out the back door or, you know, here's here's where you can go, because my courtroom is not going to be used for operations without my knowledge and consent. And then on that basis, that happened last week on Friday. The FBI is basically what shows up during her Friday docket. And like like this. arrests her, cuffs her, and throws her in jail. Then the head of the FBI, Kash Patel, announces it on social media. Pam Bondi announces it on social media. And this seems to be one of these issues that the performative doj fbi want to say this guy was a bad guy domestic violence look at his background who would ever want this guy this judge was trying to help someone who beats his wife i mean really this is a judge who does that so they're they're doing that thing to try to divide public opinion on this issue harry wright and make it seem like how could you defend this judge doing it but what they really want to do here
is trample my view on federalism states rights federal rights and start doing sting operations in state courts and i'll toss it to you harry the one of the big issues that concerns me is that this guy who's charged with domestic violence he showed up to court and if the judge would have made the finding that he did it he probably would have gone to jail for that how many people now who could be charged with crimes because our system is, are you going to get thrown into El Salvador concentration camp? What's going to happen if you show up to court? Are people just not going to show up to court anymore? And it's going to have a fundamental breakdown of law and order. That's how I thought about it.
You break it down, Harry, from your lens as someone who was a leader in the DOJ and was the United States Attorney in Western District of Pennsylvania.
All right. Let's start with the point you just made, of course. Bondi makes a big thing about how this precipitated a chase on the streets, how dangerous that was. Your point is absolutely right, Ben. The bigger danger is people not showing up, including accused criminals. But my viewpoint as a former U.S. attorney and someone who worked with the FBI, I have no viewpoint because nothing like this could possibly happen. There was one case that the Trump administration brought in 2019 and the Biden administration dismissed against a state court judge. But at least in that case, the state court judge was deceptive, tried to hide the guy, had an off-the-record sidebar conference and the like.
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