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This sounds like a case in Trump’s first term. I don’t condone the arrest, but to provide context: > In April [2019], [Shelley Joseph] and a court officer, Wes

This sounds like a case in Trump’s first term. I don’t condone the arrest, but to provide context: > In April [2019], [Shelley Joseph] and a court officer, Wesley MacGregor, were accused of allowing an immigrant to evade detention by arranging for him to sneak out the back door of a courthouse. The federal prosecutor in Boston took the highly unusual step of charging the judge with obstruction of justice… https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/16/us/shelley-joseph-immigration-judge.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/16/us/shelley-joseph-immigra... (https://archive.ph/gByeV https://archive.ph/gByeV) EDIT: Although Shelly Joseph wasn’t arrested, only charged.

kemayo 2y ago
I don't think we've got enough information to say how similar it is. That one sounds like it hung on Joseph actively helping the immigrant to take an unusual route out. If this judge just sent the agents off for their permission then wrapped things up normally and didn't get involved beyond that, I can't see this going anywhere. There's a lot of room for details-we-don't-yet-know to change that opinion, of course.
- rectang 2y ago
  According to a "sources say" quote from a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article published two days ago: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/23/ice-arrested-mexican-immigrant-after-hearing-before-judge-dugan/83233154007/ https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/23/ice-... > Sources say Dugan didn't hide the defendant and his attorney in a jury deliberation room, as other media have said. Rather, sources said, when ICE officials left to talk with the chief judge on the same floor, Dugan took the pair to a side door in the courtroom, directed them down a private hallway and into the public area on the 6th floor.

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This sounds like a case in Trump’s first term. I don’t condone the arrest, but to provide context: > In April [2019], [Shelley Joseph] and a court officer, Wes

by armchairhacker 2y ago

kemayo 2y ago
I don't think we've got enough information to say how similar it is. That one sounds like it hung on Joseph actively helping the immigrant to take an unusual route out. If this judge just sent the agents off for their permission then wrapped things up normally and didn't get involved beyond that, I can't see this going anywhere. There's a lot of room for details-we-don't-yet-know to change that opinion, of course.
- rectang 2y ago
  According to a "sources say" quote from a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article published two days ago: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/23/ice-arrested-mexican-immigrant-after-hearing-before-judge-dugan/83233154007/ https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/23/ice-... > Sources say Dugan didn't hide the defendant and his attorney in a jury deliberation room, as other media have said. Rather, sources said, when ICE officials left to talk with the chief judge on the same floor, Dugan took the pair to a side door in the courtroom, directed them down a private hallway and into the public area on the 6th floor.