Some of Trump’s Fiercest Critics Agree That WI Judge’s Arrest was Warranted
“Let’s strip the politics out of it — this is a crime. If they can prove what happened here, it is a crime. … That is textbook obstruction.”
The Left staged a collective meltdown after Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan’s arrest Friday morning. Witnesses claimed she had assisted 30-year-old Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, a Mexican national and illegal alien, in evading an ICE arrest.
The judge allegedly guided Flores-Ruiz and his attorney out of her courtroom through the jury door — instead of the main entrance where ICE agents were stationed — following his pre-trial hearing on three misdemeanor battery charges. If the witness claims are correct, Dugan acted in clear violation of the law, and her arrest was warranted.
One social media user compared Dugan’s actions to “a firefighter committing arson — the last thing you’d expect from a firefighter.”
But, as always, the Left didn’t let something as inconvenient as legitimacy stop them from whipping up public hysteria. Politicians and legacy media hosts quickly took their verbal marching orders from Democrat Central and sprang into action. Suddenly, President Donald Trump was being framed as a would-be dictator for targeting judges Hitler-style. If this could happen to a judge, they warned, it could happen to any one of us. No one was safe.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), who was one of many Democrats to claim that “no one is above the law” during the Biden administration’s almost unfathomable lawfare campaign against Trump, spoke for many in her party when she posted the following message on social media: “This is not normal. The Administration’s arrest of a sitting judge in Wisconsin is a drastic move that threatens the rule of law. While we don’t have all the details, this is a grave step and undermines our system of checks and balances.”
Klobuchar’s reaction was quite different from her response to the unprecedented raid on Mar-a-Lago, a former president’s home, in August 2022. At the time, Klobuchar noted, “The law is king, and the former president isn’t.”
But then something odd happened. Amidst the wailing and the gnashing of liberal and anti-Trumper teeth, a few quiet voices of sanity rose up.
Among those voices was former Attorney General William Barr, who has never passed up an opportunity to criticize his former boss.
During a Monday afternoon interview with Fox Business News host David Asman, Barr said, “I don’t think there’s any question about this, and I think it’s time for zero tolerance. And getting back to basics, which are that judges and state officials are still citizens. They’re subject to the federal law and they cannot interfere in or impede the federal function. So, I’m 100% in agreement with what’s [been] done.”
Frmr AG Bill Barr has never hesitated to criticize Pres Trump. But his support of the Trump administration’s arrests of judges who were obstructing the work of federal agents who were attempting to arrest criminal aliens is unequivocal. pic.twitter.com/js1u41F2dL
— David Asman (@DavidAsmanfox) April 29, 2025
CNN’s senior legal analyst and former Assistant U.S. Attorney Elie Konig supported the arrest. “Looking at the complaint, let’s strip the politics out of it — this is a crime,” he said. “If they can prove what happened here, it is a crime.”
“Let’s say law enforcement shows up at a building. They’re looking for person A. Person B then says, ‘Hey, there’s a secret escape door out back. I’m going to show you the way.’ And then ushers that person out the back door. That is textbook obstruction.”
CNN's Elie Honig has some bad news for Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan: "Let's strip the politics out of it — this is a crime. If they can prove what happened here, it is a crime … That is textbook obstruction."
No one is above the law, right Democrats?! pic.twitter.com/cQ1ZmMK46R
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) April 25, 2025
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe remarked that the case against Dugan was not “unreasonable.” He said, “There’s plenty of evidence in the complaint to get you beyond the probable cause phase, which is where we are right now.”
He did, however, object to the public way in which the arrest was carried out. Specifically, he pointed out, “She was arrested at the courthouse rather than her own residence, the fact that she was placed in a jail cell for hours before her arraignment was called in the court later in the afternoon. These things are unprecedented.”
Actually, that’s not true.
McCabe must have forgotten the September 2022 arrest of pro-life activist Mark Houck for alleged violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. Several dozen armed FBI agents arrived at his home in Kintnersville, Pennsylvania. His wife, Ryan-Marie Houck, later told LifeSite News that she and her husband were at home with their seven young children when members of the SWAT team began pounding on the front door at 7:05 a.m.
In the X post below, @WesternLensman recalls the Biden DOJ “conducted pre-dawn raids to arrest J6’ers with no criminal history and charged with misdemeanors. The same people cheered. This is the only strategy they can come up with to attack Trump, knowing the actual facts of the case are a political loser.”
🚨McCABE: Judge Dugan case is solid legally, but the way she was arrested was “unprecedented” and “performative cruelty."
"These things are unprecedented, typically upstanding members of the community who have no criminal history and aren't accused of a violent act are allowed… pic.twitter.com/1U8EnE8jqs
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) April 26, 2025
Some of us still remember the wild scene that unfolded at the home of Trump associate Roger Stone during his arrest. The chef’s kiss? The FBI had tipped off CNN ahead of time so they could be on-site when the raid went down.
But over and above everything else, the judge’s actions denied — or at least delayed — justice for the illegal aliens’ alleged victims who’d shown up to make their voices heard. They deserved better.
Another X user reminds McCabe that the illegal alien’s alleged victims were in court that day.
That’s absolutely right.But as always, @TheDemocrats @SenateDems @HouseDemocrats side with the criminals, even when those criminals are…
— Commonsensical Human (@Lol19559014) April 27, 2025
So if McCabe’s only complaint is about how the arrest was handled, I’ll take that as a win. If the allegations against Dugan are proven, she committed a crime and should be prosecuted. Period. Everything else is just noise and propaganda.
Elizabeth writes commentary for Legal Insurrection and The Washington Examiner. She is an academy fellow at The Heritage Foundation. Please follow Elizabeth on LinkedIn or X.
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I am delighted that the ancient “Wailing and gnashing of teeth” from my Pentecostal past has been resurrected. It is very applicable today.
No one is above the law—unless you’re a Democrat Judge.
Well, there’s an exception to everything.
lefty will learn that you dont need to put up actual signs
just be a lefty and its understood that you are above the law
UNTIL MAGA
Well said. Hear hear!
The judge ‘allegedly’ let the guy out? I would love to hear an innocent explanation of her actions. What happened seems pretty cut and dried. Many witnessed it.. Ironically the witnesses waiting to testify now have two cases where they are needed.
Would hate to be her lawyer. This alleged public servant should do decades in the prison to which she sentenced so many. There will be serious s*** if that doesn’t happen.
The nail in Dugan’s coffin is her own confrontation with the ICE agents, a confrontation that took place in front of witnesses. Witnesses report that she asked the agents “Do you have a valid warrant?” When they replied yes, she asked if the warrant was from an administrative court (an immigration court). They replied affirmatively. This establishes that she knew the agents were there to make an arrest and had a warrant authorizing the arrest. Her actions may have otherwise been excused as “coincidental,” but not with this on the record.
It’s all “allegedly” until she is convicted of a crime. It sure looks pretty cut and dried from this angle, though and there are a bunch of witnesses including the victims of the illegal alien who saw it happen. Notice the wailing and histrionics are all over the optics of arresting a Judge and how unprecedented it is not on the allegations she committed a federal crime.
I’m thinking that the more they accuse President Trump of being a dictator, the more we should approve of what he did, because it means they are being held accountable in ways that they are totally unaccustomed to.
I just had a thought … wasn’t this guy in custody since he was being charged with 3 counts of domestic battery? Does that mean that the judge also broke him out of jail?
Hopefully not…but, we don’t know for certain. Unbelievably, the judge adjourned the SENTENCING hearing to allow him to escape, even though his victims were in the room waiting for THEIR justice to be delivered. What a slap in the face to them. While we can presume he was out on some kind of bail/ROR pending that sentencing, the reporting on that element is not very good. If he was on bail, it highlights another profound problem with local/state criminal justice. He’s a twice-deported convict (either a serious Class III misdemeanor or a felony, not sure), but he was given POST-CONVICTION bail? The guy is the poster child for flight risk.
I presume they call Trump a dictator out of simple projection, being wannabe dictators themselves.
Their real objection to this arrest is that it violates the bedrock principle of the 2-tiered justice system.
No fair!
Klobuchar needs to stfu and go back to abusing her staff.
To Klobuchar’s “This is not normal,” I replied directly to her, “I agree. It’s not normal for state judges to commit federal crimes.”
“She was arrested at the courthouse rather than her own residence, the fact that she was placed in a jail cell for hours before her arraignment was called in the court later in the afternoon. These things are unprecedented.”
Happens to other people all the time. What’s unprecedented is that she, being a big wig Democrat, wasn’t given special treatment.
Was that big wig powdered?
Had she been arrested at home, the complaint would have been “No need to embarrass her in front of family and neighbors, the arrest could have been made at her office.”
There’s no pleasing these people. They can be ignored.
She needed a good 4AM door-busting, complete with a nightgown perp-walk in front of OAN cameras. Democrat rules!
If more judges have to take perp walks, perhaps they’ll reconsider breaking the law. They are not special.
“One social media user compared Dugan’s actions to “a firefighter committing arson — the last thing you’d expect from a firefighter.”
That’s like claiming that criminal violence is the last thing you’d expect from a cop, or that pedophilia is the last thing you’d expect from a youth group leader. It shows a dangerous naiveté.
“It has been reported that roughly 100 U.S. firefighters are convicted of arson each year.[3][4]” — Wikipedia
The fact that the WI Supreme Court has suspended Dugan says it realizes that if lower court state judges can make up the law on their own, it’ll be chaos.
She violated a public trust and knowingly helped a convicted criminal escape..
She shouldn’t be punished, she should be hung.
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