I'd make an 'emperor's new clothes' reference, but I really don't want to picture him in the full monty
Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread
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Hegseth Had Unsecured Internet Line Set Up In His Office To Connect To Signal, AP Reports
The defense secretary had an internet connection that bypassed the Pentagon’s security protocols set up in his office, allowing him to use Signal on a personal computer.
Maybe I should take a second look at those texts that keep offering to show me confidential memos.
Nah, you know it's fake if they're only offering, not just sending you the memos.
Trump denies aid for Arkansas after storms that killed more than 40 people
Latest denial of disaster funding comes as Trump has repeatedly stated he wants to eliminate Fema
www.theguardian.com
Shoulda voted for Kamala, AR.
And arkansas gets to be the vanguard of bad news. The first in a long line of disaster zones refused aid by trump.
In an ideal world, the citizens of red states would learn from this. We don't live in an ideal world, though..... They will continue listening to Fox News, OAN and Newsmax and treat what they say as gospel even though their blatant propaganda is easy to disprove...
How a Milwaukee judge allegedly helped a migrant slip past ICE and ended up in cuffs
The FBI claims the Wisconsin jurist attempted to prevent immigration agents from arresting someone who’d appeared in her courtroom
www.independent.co.uk
Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social)
BREAKING: The constitutional crisis has arrived. We knew it was coming, just not when.
bsky.app
They're killing the dept. of education. Nothing to learn here, just suffer because the government that COULD help you refuses to.
And you absolutely know they will use that against democrats later.
Nope, from the fact that the FBI arrested a judge on trumped up charges and false accusations.
That too, but the 2028 hats were first reported for sale on his site a day earlier...
I really need to get my wife off the Trump bandwagon. At the moment she is still "cautiously supporting him."
Reaching the Erdogan point on the authoritarian leader scale.
All this is escalating far faster than a pessimist like me believed would happen. He could be full dictator by the end of the summer at this rate.
They arrested a judge for upholding the law: if she's still on the bandwagon, I don't think she'll fall off it.
Found the details on it all, so this may help:
First per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Dugan :
Some information on the differences:
www.motionlaw.com
ANd New York State is an example of one of the states that forbids it:
First per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Dugan :
They had an administrative warrant, not a judicial warrant. This does not allow them to make arrests in a courthouse in some states(unsure if Wisconsin is one of those), but ICE has been doing so regardless, in other cases it seems.
Some information on the differences:
The Difference Between Judicial and Administrative Warrants | Motion Law
Understand The Difference Between Judicial and Administrative Warrants. Contact Motion Law today if you have any quesitons about immigration!
www.motionlaw.com
ANd New York State is an example of one of the states that forbids it:
Interesting. It looks like a Judicial Warrant is more appropriate in cases where forced entry of a private property is necessary to seize the subject. These must be approved by a judge/magistrate. An Administrative Warrant does not authorize such an entry, and ergo also is only issued by ICE officials, not a 3P judge/magistrate.
So, absent any other statute or ordinance, the issue turns on whether one has an expectation of privacy while appearing in open court. Which...no, you do not have that. Courthouses are open to the public, by definition, except for specific circumstances and specific types of hearings.
The closest local statements I can find are here: https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2025/04/23/murphys-law-wisconsin-battles-over-ice/
And...it doesn't seem like Wisconsin has a "Protect Our Courts" Act like New York, because the other judges and officials speaking out on behalf of Judge Dugan are not citing it when they do.
The closest thing is a memo apparently disseminated among the judges telling them they have to comply with a Judicial Warrant, but not with an Administrative Warrant. I.e., as officers of the court (judge, bailiff, deputies, police officers) they must act to detain individuals or provide information when requested to do so by a Judicial Warrant. But they are not required to comply with assisting the execution of an Administrative Warrant. However, "not required to comply" is very different from actively leading the subject of the warrant in evading ICE agents.
TLDR; she was not obligated to assist, but that doesn't mean she could actively interfere.
So, absent any other statute or ordinance, the issue turns on whether one has an expectation of privacy while appearing in open court. Which...no, you do not have that. Courthouses are open to the public, by definition, except for specific circumstances and specific types of hearings.
The closest local statements I can find are here: https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2025/04/23/murphys-law-wisconsin-battles-over-ice/
And...it doesn't seem like Wisconsin has a "Protect Our Courts" Act like New York, because the other judges and officials speaking out on behalf of Judge Dugan are not citing it when they do.
The closest thing is a memo apparently disseminated among the judges telling them they have to comply with a Judicial Warrant, but not with an Administrative Warrant. I.e., as officers of the court (judge, bailiff, deputies, police officers) they must act to detain individuals or provide information when requested to do so by a Judicial Warrant. But they are not required to comply with assisting the execution of an Administrative Warrant. However, "not required to comply" is very different from actively leading the subject of the warrant in evading ICE agents.
TLDR; she was not obligated to assist, but that doesn't mean she could actively interfere.
Mmm, not quite.
If this had been a judicial warrant, the judge would be up the proverbial creek. An administrative warrant has very little authority or backing. You can absolutely tell the agents to go suck eggs. Since it does not have judicial weight, you can point agents in a wrong direction or simply block them. A judicial warrant gets you into the door. An administrative warrant is 'if we see you in public, we can take you'. They can't enter homes, businesses or any place where they are not invited. They are extremely limited. And, from reading things, these agents were told to kick rocks and no do this in the courthouse.
Yeah, she could absolutely point out the back door while telling them to hug off. Come back with a real warrant.
ICE Can Now Enter Your Home Without a Warrant to Look for Migrants, DOJ Memo Says
A new memo from the Trump administration reveals something shocking: ICE agents have been told they can enter homes without a warrant to arrest migrants, based on little more than suspicion.
dailyboulder.com
Laws don't matter and no one will stop them.
She's skating pretty close. Here's the statutes I found that she's charged under
Obstruction: "Whoever corruptly,
Concealment: "Whoever harbors or conceals any person for whose arrest a warrant or process has been issued under the provisions of any law of the United States, so as to prevent his discovery and arrest, after notice or knowledge of the fact that a warrant or process has been issued for the apprehension of such person, shall be..."
For concealment, I'd say it comes down to whether an Administrative Warrant qualifies as a "warrant" or "arrest" under the law. For obstruction...if these were otherwise open court proceedings, and she used her authority as a judge to refuse them entry, and then led the subject through another exit only accessible to judicial personnel...well, it's not getting dismissed on its face, absent some federal precedent I'm unfamiliar with.