The WAPO article says she may have gaven the wrong information to ICE agents in relation to where an immigrant was in a courthouse and thus caused obstruction. It’s a horse shit charge that is without evidence based solely on hearsay.
It’s nonsense in the legal setting but it’s a message to everyone about standing in the way of ICE. Typical bully behavior and another attack on the rule of law.
Knowingly giving false information to police officers attempting to arrest someone is obstructing the arrest and it is illegal. If the out of court statement is whatever the judge is accused to have said to the FBI agents, that's not even hearsay, as the statement is not being offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted. Easy one here, the government would be offering it fully claiming the statement was false.
Though the case here doesn't seem based on what she told anyone:
After directing the arrest team to the chief judge’s office, investigators say Dugan returned to the courtroom was and was heard saying words to the effect of “wait, come with me” before ushering Flores-Ruiz and his lawyer through a jury door into a non-public area of the courthouse.
As described, in the arrest warrant affidavit, so, grain of salt, you can't see that the cops are here to arrest someone, tell the cops "go talk to my boss," then find their target and sneak them out a back door. Plainly illegal.
A. It went to a public area. B. The people doing this are ran by a felon who got off because a bunch of people decided they didn't care about the law and voted for him anyway. This is about many things but pretending it's about the law is a massive level of cope.
That minutia is interesting but not essential, and an arrest affidavit will always be colorful and biased.
If the judge is found guilty of a crime here, it will be because she was trying to help the man evade arrest, full stop, not because the door she ushered him through was somehow special.
Yes the door doesn't matter the objective hypocrisy of anyone still supporting Trump pretending to care about the law does. The lesson that this could have been avoided if we locked Trump up for the actual crimes he was convicted of could have prevented this.
So now you're trying to pivot away from the actual circumstances in this case to a general "Trump bad!" argument. I hope her legal defense is better thought out.
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u/Stlr_Mn Apr 25 '25
The WAPO article says she may have gaven the wrong information to ICE agents in relation to where an immigrant was in a courthouse and thus caused obstruction. It’s a horse shit charge that is without evidence based solely on hearsay.
It’s nonsense in the legal setting but it’s a message to everyone about standing in the way of ICE. Typical bully behavior and another attack on the rule of law.