Federal prosecutors have charged a Milwaukee judge with obstructing an immigration arrest operation — the first known instance of the Justice Department pursuing a criminal case against a local official for allegedly interfering with immigration enforcement since President Donald Trump returned to office.

FBI Director Kash Patel announced the arrest of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan in a post on the social media platform X, which he deleted moments after posting. Patel accused Dugan of “intentionally misdirecting” federal agents who arrived at the courthouse to detain an immigrant who was set to appear before her in an unrelated proceeding.

“Thankfully, our agents chased down the perp on foot and he’s been in custody since,” Patel wrote. “But the Judge’s obstruction created increased danger to the public.”

The FBI declined to comment on why Patel had deleted his post announcing Dugan’s arrest.

At a brief appearance in federal court in Milwaukee on Friday, prosecutors said Dugan has been charged with counts of obstruction and concealing a person from arrest, the most serious of which are punishable by up to five years in prison.

“Ms. Dugan wholeheartedly regrets and protests her arrest,” her attorney, Craig Mastantuono, told U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen C. Dries. “It was not made in the interest of public safety, and we ask that the court allow her release.”

Dries released Dugan from custody to await future court proceedings.

According to reporting by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, ICE agents arrived in Dugan’s courtroom last Friday during a pre-trial hearing for Eduardo Flores Ruiz, a 30-year-old Mexican national who is facing misdemeanor battery charges in Wisconsin.

Dugan asked the agents to leave and speak to the circuit court’s chief judge, the Journal Sentinel reported. By the time they returned, Flores Ruiz had left.

“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,” Patel wrote in his post.

Judges in some jurisdictions across the country have criticized ICE’s efforts to locate and detain migrants at courthouses. They say those efforts have made migrants unwilling to show up as victims or witnesses in unrelated hearings because they are afraid they might face arrest.

During Trump’s first term, the Justice Department charged a judge and court officer in Massachusetts with helping an undocumented immigrant escape from a courthouse in Newtown, a suburb of Boston, in 2018.

Prosecutors said then that as ICE agents arrived to detain the man, Judge Shelley M. Richmond Joseph directed him to leave through the courthouse basement, where he was let out a back door as the agents waited for him in the lobby.

The federal charges were dropped in 2022 as part of an agreement that required Joseph to refer herself to the Massachusetts Commission on Judicial Conduct, the body in charge of judicial discipline in the state.

Within days of Trump’s return to the White House in January, a top Justice Department official directed federal prosecutors nationwide to investigate and potentially charge state and local officials who impede the president’s immigration enforcement agenda.

“Federal law prohibits state and local actors from resisting, obstructing, and otherwise failing to comply with lawful immigration-related commands,” wrote Emil Bove, then acting deputy attorney general.

Dugan won her seat on the Milwaukee County bench in 2016, defeating a judge who had been appointed in the heavily Democratic county by then-Gov. Scott Walker ®.

Before she was a judge, Dugan worked as a poverty attorney and executive director of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee.

Sounds like you know at least enough for a junior admin job if you can find one. What you’re missing is the “street smarts” that only comes with experience. How things actually work in real life businesses, with real life users and salespeople and managers and C-levels throwing shit into the sauce.

Getting the job is going to be the hard part, for numerous reasons that have nothing to do with you personally. It’s a shitshow out there. Best of luck.

The LLM peddlers seem to be going for that exact result. That’s why they’re calling it “AI”. Why is this surprising that non-technical people are falling for it?

For real this time, guys! Linux is going to displace Windows this year. This is the straw that’s gonna cause a mass migration to the command line, trust me bro

Right along party lines, I imagine. In other words, the only people with a positive view of Musk are the ones who reliably think what right wing propaganda tells them to think.

Gee, I wonder who stands to profit by sending taxpayer-funded debt collectors after people with no money?

Just take the slush money quietly and leave us alone.

Ew.

Can you imagine the Fox News hysteria if the Pope died on Easter right after meeting with Obama?

$10 says whoever’s in charge of this $500 billion project is just going to wrap ChatGPT, pocket $490 billion, then go ask for more.

Time for the AP to file a writ of mandamus. Loudly.

No shit. Next they’re gonna drop a bombshell report that sometimes dogs are brown.

Normal =/= desirable. Maybe some of you don’t mind spending your life in a miniature royal court with your parents as monarchs, but I couldn’t wait to get away from it.

Linux has traditionally been a “hands-on” OS. So there’s not a big market for hardware that ships with Linux pre-loaded and everything “just works.” People who seek out Linux are generally tinkerers. But obviously there is a big market for computers that just work out of the box. Honestly, I’d say this is the biggest thing holding back mass adoption of Linux: no over the counter Linux boxes to just buy and run with.

They’re scream testing the whole government, one piece at a time.

Manor lords who want to see attackers coming from a distance. Requires a few dedicated serfs for all the scything, but such is the cost of protecting one’s estates.

This would be a lot more chilling if you weren’t familiar with Elon Musk in real life, as opposed to his delusions of grandeur. The real Elon Musk insists on funnier-shaped rockets and throws tantrums when he gets bullied over sucking at video games. The only dangerous thing about him is being born rich, spoiled, and enabled.

We were already completely fucked. We knew this in the 70’s and reconfirmed it in 2023. With Trump reinstalled, we’re extra super-duper double-stamp no-erasies fucked.

Yep. I replaced a bunch of ancient HP switches in a SMB with all Aruba. Works like a charm, and (at the time) used ones were dirt cheap.