Judges Are Slowing Down Trump’s Fascist Deportation Regime. Now He’s Arresting Them For It.
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In the absence of opposition party challenges and disempowered labor, courts are one of the few sites of meaningful pushback on Trump’s agenda.

Judges Are Slowing Down Trump’s Fascist Deportation Regime. Now He’s Arresting Them For It.

The FBI arrested a sitting judge in a Milwaukee County court in Wisconsin on Friday, claiming that she obstructed immigration enforcement agents from detaining an undocumented immigrant in her courtroom.

Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan’s arrest is not only the latest escalation in Donald Trump’s fascist deportation program, it also marks the administration’s eagerness to take aim at any and all constraints on its power to act.

“We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse,” FBI director Kash Patel in a post on X. Patel added that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents “chased down the perp on foot and he’s been in custody since.”

In the absence of opposition party challenges and disempowered labor, courts are one of the few sites of meaningful pushback on Trump’s agenda.

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Less and less land of the free, more and more home of the brave.

It’s over boys. It’s second amendment or nothing now.

  • kingofras@lemmy.worldOP
    269·
    3 days ago

    I can tell you’ve got a very analytical mind, and you’re probably NeuroDiverse like all the rest of us here, but I think you’re wrong. The local judge is not gonna go down silently and neither should anyone in that God forsaken 50 state country.

    These are all carefully orchestrated steps. Something they can misconstrue later and make sure people support the suspension of the judiciary, and the invoking of Martial law.

    • zulfiqaramerBanned
      41·
      1 day ago

      and you’re probably NeuroDiverse like all the rest of us here

      Wtf…?

      • kingofras@lemmy.worldOP
        31·
        2 days ago

        My prediction: Assuming this judge properly shuts up and lawyers up, this case quietly fizzles after a while

        • workerONE@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 days ago

          They’re not saying the judge will go down silently. They’re saying the judge will win and nothing will come of it.

            • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
              2·
              20 hours ago

              As in “Employs the recommended legal strategy of not saying anything while her lawyers do their job, in order to avoid incrimination.” The smartest thing you can say while embroiled in legal trouble is absolutely nothing, that’s what your lawyer is for.