More on the arrest of Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan
Our British visitor “David Clayton” is highly offended and downright outraged by Judge Dugan’s arrest:
The FBI arresting a judge.
I am not surprised but probably not for the same reasons as you Neo. Your country and its constitution is being dragged into the mire by a liar who frightens his supporters into tolerating anything.
And you cheer him on. Doesn’t any of this excessive executive power worry you? The endless EO’s, the thoroughly cowed Congress and the imperilled judiciary.
Your entire constitution was written to prevent one man rule but one man is ruling.
Is there anything Trump will do that you won’t tolerate?
And here I thought that, to the David Claytons of the world (because he is hardly alone in his sentiments), no one is above the law. Apparently, however, judges are above the law, and can make up their own law and/or defy the actual law in order to assist a criminal illegal alien if they happen to feel so disposed.
Good to know.
And the law involved in the case was not something esoteric. Unlike the bizarre lawfare cases the left brought against Trump during the Biden years, in which the law was tortured and twisted and turned inside out and used in completely novel and previously-unthought-of ways in order to “get” him, the case in which Dugan decided to help the defendant was a pretty straightforward matter.
It is actually the left which will tolerate nearly anything – including, apparently, a judge who protects an illegal alien who is charged with beating up two people in a domestic assault – protects him from being arrested by letting him out a back door in order to evade apprehension by ICE. Because that’s a summary of the facts of the case.
More here:
[FBI director Patel said] “We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse, Eduardo Flores Ruiz, allowing the subject — an illegal alien — to evade arrest.”
Dugan was charged with two criminal counts of “obstructing and impeding a proceeding before a department or agency of the United States” and “concealing an individual to prevent his discovery and arrest,” according to a criminal complaint unsealed Friday.
County court records show the undocumented immigrant in the Milwaukee case — Eduardo Flores-Ruiz — was set to appear in court on April 18 before Dugan for a pretrial conference in a case where he has been charged with three misdemeanor counts of battery/domestic abuse connected to an incident on March 12. The case is ongoing.
Federal prosecutors allege Flores-Ruiz illegally entered the U.S. from Mexico and was issued an Expedited Removal order in January 2013, according to a criminal complaint.
Bondi alleged that Flores-Ruiz beat his roommate and a woman so badly that they needed to be hospitalized and that he continued to be belligerent in the hospital before his arrest. …
“The courtroom deputy [later] saw Judge DUGAN get up and heard Judge DUGAN say something like ‘Wait, come with me,'” the complaint states. “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.”
“So she continues, continues with her docket, finishes her docket. Two victims sit in court all morning long waiting and at the end. The prosecutors say ‘What happened? Why didn’t the case get called?'” Bondi said.
Seems pretty lawless to me.
No one is above the law, including a judge. Judges are not saints. In the past, some of them have even been convicted of crimes (for a list, please take a look at this). The criminal complaint against Dugan can be found here, with the details of the allegations against the judge. In addition, the situation is not new:
The case is similar to one brought during the first Trump administration against a Massachusetts judge, who was accused of helping a man sneak out a back door of a courthouse to evade a waiting immigration enforcement agent.
Prosecutors dropped the case against Newton District Judge Shelley Joseph in 2022 under the Democratic Biden administration after she agreed to refer herself to a state agency that investigates allegations of misconduct by members of the bench.
The Justice Department had previously signaled that it was going to crack down on local officials who thwart federal immigration efforts.
The department in January ordered prosecutors to investigate for potential criminal charges any state and local officials who obstruct or impede federal functions. As potential avenues for prosecution, a memo cited a conspiracy offense as well as a law prohibiting the harboring of people in the country illegally.
As far as Clayton’s idea of Trump as displaying “excessive power” goes, Trump didn’t invent immigration law or the concept of illegal aliens; he has been enforcing laws passed by Congress governing immigration, in accord with his own presidential powers over immigration which are given to presidents by the US Constitution. But I guess rogue judges are just fine with the left as long as they are members of the Trump “resistance.”
One can read more about the Massachusetts case against Shelley Joseph here. The allegations were quite serious – although not as serious as the Dugan case. From the article:
Late last year, the [Massachusetts Commission on Judicial Conduct] filed formal charges against Joseph with the state’s highest court, a surprisingly forceful step for a body that has only gone so far five other times since 2000.
And that’s in ultra-liberal Massachusetts, so her offense was considered serious, even there. I can’t find any news of a ruling on Joseph so perhaps one hasn’t been made yet.
Judge Dugan and David Clayton are minor players in the much larger drama of individuality writ large. That is, they make their own laws, tear down right from wrong in favor of their own singular delusions.
I am struck by stories about Catholics who are said to fall into two camps as they await a new Pope, those that wish to basically destroy their Church by favoring female priests, no more celibacy, etc., versus the “traditional” Catholics who resist such libertinism in the priesthood. Hedonism is not a feature of Christianity!
It seems to be the belief among both the judges at all levels as well as the permanent bureaucracy that they are some kind of check on the temporarily elected.
I dont know as much about the particulars about las cruces as the details i noted about milwaukee that i recall from the 90s on, probably deindustrialization which first off loaded work to mexico then to china probably had a lot to do why it descended into the circumstances it finds itself where desperate people fall for the likes of john chisholm who has done the citizens no favors of course milwaukees mismanagement stands in the way of real reform as we discovered in 2020 and 2022 (to a lesser extent)
There are priests that marry under the pope. Some that convert from other denominations, and members of the Eastern Catholic Church.
https://ucatholic.com/blog/these-catholic-priests-are-allowed-to-be-married/
Allowing married would clean up a lot of issues with the Catholic clergy.
At one time, long time ago, Priest could marry. For a long time Priest in Wales continued to do so.
The Church ordains married men. Priests do not marry.
Back to the topic, the actual sequence of events is a lot more egregious than summarized here. Facts won’t matter to David Clayton, of course, and mysteriously aren’t making it into NYT or WaPo. Funny how that works.
OK, now let’s do Letitia.
David Crickets (Clayton)?
So a git from Fascist England has the chutzpah to accuse us of tolerating tyranny?
Nice.
Cross-posting for redundancy regarding Dictator Cuckton.
@David Clayton
Our host and others have addressed your nonsense quite well, though I think Neo is too generous when she calls you foolish, ignorant, or both. I’d add mendacious and malicious to those.
But let’s deal with this in detail.
Don’t say that like it hasn’t happened before.
https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/former-judge-arrested-bribery-and-obstruction-justice
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdtx/pr/hidalgo-county-judge-arrested-and-charged-bribery
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/26/us/texas-judge-cash-bribes/index.html
https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/bad-behavior/5-corrupt-judges-the-countless-lives-they-tried-to-destroy
Shall I go on?
And those are just a few American examples.
Of course not. Neo’s not an idiot or a collaborator with leftist scumbags, and you are. Your idiocy, Trump Derangement Syndrome, authoritarian boot swallowing, and unearned sense of superiority have rotted whatever bit of functioning brain you had.
Translation: you’re a fucking idiot and have no clue what a constitution is, or how to punish corrupt, tyrannical judges.
I realize this is probably a novel concept to someone like you, but judges are not perfect and unassailable avatars of morality, they’re not even unassailable avatars of the law. And when they overreach their orders or succumb to outright corruption or criminality, THEY NEED TO BE PUNISHED. What part of Nobody Is Above The Law do you not understand?
And don’t even try to claim this is somehow unique to the US or Trump’s America.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/nov/17/stevenmorris
https://intelligenceuk.com/2022/02/01/judicial-corruption-corrupt-judges/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn892zq6z43o
Dugan and now another judge lied to authorities, sheltered known, violent MS-13 gangsters at their home, and did a whole lot of other heinous things.. ‘Allegedly.’ Which is why she resigned in disgrace pending her trial. Are we supposed to ignore that?
What is the proper remedy to “credible accusations” and later direct physical evidence of such conduct, Oh David Clayton, Avatar of Conservative Integrity?
And in this case rightfully so. Dugan was a scumbag who even before evidence of this was shown talked a great deal about (ab)using her bench to push “social justice”, and now we learn that extends to allowing a violent terrorist to escape punishment. This is the sort of remedy that is proper for her behavior.
I have a few cases where I believe Trump might be engaging in excessive executive power. This is absolutely not one of them. It is quite literally applying the rule of law as written to a judge in what should be one of the absolute least controversial and complicated of cases. Aiding and abetting a fugitive would be dubious even under the best of times, doing so for MS-13 is another level of bad.
I’m guessing you didn’t object worth a fuck to Biden or Obama’s doing so, or Starmer’s similar conduct. I’m not fond of EOs, but they are part of the nature of the beast at present and frankly the US is less reliant on them than several others.
Moreover, one at least elects the person that makes EOs (or is supposed to, in the case of Biden the vegetable). The same cannot be said for many judges or the supposedly-executive bureaucracy.
Tell me you’re an idiot who has never bothered looking at C-SPAN about Congress recently without saying as much in as many words.
“Thoroughly cowed”? We must be living in different realities. But I suppose that would fit.
If imprisoning a judge for literally sheltering a criminal gangster wanted by the authorities is “imperiling the judiciary” than the Judiciary has so strayed from its oaths and legal grounds than it should be imperiled, in much the same way Nixon and LBJ should have been imperiled and impeached before being trialed.
Bull. Shit.
Moreover I’ll note that if anything our Constitution was written to give accountability to undemocratic, unelected judges like those used by the British Parliament and Crown to tyrannize the colonies, especially the justifiably hated commerce and admiralty courts that denied due process. A long time ago the British recognized the threat of authoritarian rule from the bench, which is why Judge Jeffreys was on the verge of being trialed when unfortunately he prematurely died. Apparently you have forgotten that.
Plenty. But you would neither acknowledge nor accept that because you are a fundamentally disgraceful, dishonest, ignorant, hateful piece of shit troll and jackboot deepthroater. That Neo has not banned your dishonest ass is far more generous than I would be.
Turtler, your time is too valuable to waste so much of it on someone who is so obviously a paid trolling loser. If he exists at all and is not just some AI out of a leftist boiler room.
A silver lining in these judicial arrests is now it’s causing other rat ass judges to show their true colors; from this morning:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/wisconsin-judge-threatens-courtroom-boycott-over-hannah-dugan-arrest
A British person said that?
Consider the source.