The FBI arrested a sitting judge for ‘obstruction of justice’
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Federal agents arrested a Milwaukee judge Friday on obstruction charges for allegedly interfering with an immigration arrest. Judge Hannah Dugan of the Milwaukee County Circuit Court was arrested in the county courthouse and remains in federal custody, the https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/breaking/2025/04/25/milwaukee-county-judge-hannah-dugan-arrested-by-feds-at-courthouse/83270885007/
. Kash Patel, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), posted about Dugan’s arrest on X. He has since deleted the post.
Dugan’s arrest comes one day after federal agents https://wfin.com/fox-national-news/ex-new-mexico-judge-wife-arrested-for-allegedly-harboring-illegal-tren-de-aragua-member/
and his wife in their home. Former Doña Ana County Magistrate Judge Joel Cano and his wife, Nancy Cano, were charged with evidence tampering and harboring an alleged member of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang. (The administration has used spurious evidence, including innocuous tattoos, to accuse Venezuelan migrants of being Tren de Aragua members in order to exile them to a notorious prison in El Salvador.)
The details of these arrests so far are scant, but suggest that the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on immigration - and increasingly going after anyone who https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courage-to-be-decent
. More broadly, Trump’s Department of Justice app …
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