Releasing her doesn't matter, the message has already been sent, the intention is clear. To intimidate those that would defy their fascist operations. To silence critics that fear retribution. To say for all to hear, "if we can do this to a judge, imagine what we can do to you."
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Alternate Headline: Fascist Regime Attempts To Intimidate Federal Judges By Arresting And Releasing One
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Dugan is accused of escorting the man and his lawyer out of her courtroom through the jury door last week after learning that immigration authorities were seeking his arrest.
Lady: You've got bailiffs. You've got the entire damn police force and courthouse staff at your disposal. Send the defendant into your quarters and tell him to lock the door, wait for ICE to come in the courtroom, raise your voice tell them to leave your courtroom, find them in contempt when they don't, and send them for three days. Tell the court staff to grab them. If they fight back, fuck it, game on, sounds good.
I'm glad she's trying to protect the rights of her defendant, and the agents who "arrested" her should clearly be in prison. She did good, no mistake. But I think she has a lot more leverage than she was acting with if she wants to decide to protect defendants. Trying to be sneaky about it is just going to feed into their narrative. There's a reason they cover their faces and try to snatch people quick and get out of the area. They know they're vulnerable. Feed into that.
Her bailiffs and police force are almost 100% on the side of ICE.
let me fucking do it then
I think it's more that they don't know what the fuck to do in this unprecedented situation and just defaulted to submitting to the "higher" authority.
At the end of the day, they were probably just thinking of themselves and not wanting to be arrested.
Maybe. Maybe not. A lot of cops aren't happy about Trump pardoning everyone for assaulting the Capitol police, and violating everything they've been trained on how they need to do things in terms of "arresting" immigrants using ICE. She's in Wisconsin, so maybe you're right, but I still feel like her directly upholding the law using the position she has to tell bailiffs what to do would have been a better play. If they want to ignore direct orders from a judge, at least let's get that out there, and then we can figure out what to do at that point.
The truth is I'm just doing armchair analysis when I have no idea of the situation. That's how I see it though.
Were the charges dropped or she is out on bail?
Charges weren't dropped. Neither the judge nor the prosecution sought detention, so she is just out until the next hearing happens (May 15th).
On April 25, Dugan appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen C. Dries during a brief hearing in a packed courtroom at the federal courthouse. Dugan, wearing a black dress with white flowers, made no public comments during the brief hearing.
At the hearing, Dries asked if prosecutors were seeking detention, and they said they were not. He answered that he did not believe that the charges were “eligible” for detention.
As it ended, her attorney, Craig Mastantuono, told the court: "Judge Dugan wholeheartedly regrets and protests her arrest. It was not made in the interest of public safety."
Dugan made her federal court appearance a little more than two hours after she was arrested at the county courthouse at about 8 a.m. April 25.
The article didn't explicitly state it, but she was probably released on her own recognizance. (In other words, she pinky-swore to come back for her trial).
Bail is just a tactic to compel the person to come back to court and face their charges by forcing them to pay a fee which they don't get back unless they show up. This lady is a judge. She is unlikely to disappear before her court date, because it would affect all the cases she is in charge of.
Not just a judge. An elected judge.
MAGA: so a stolen election judge you say?
The MAGAt clown show continues.
Time to arrest the judge that released the judge that was arrested for shielding the immigrant awaiting trial from summary deportation.
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