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struggle4progress

(125,286 posts)
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 03:14 PM Apr 2025

Arrest of judge backfires

Popok explains that Judge Dugan was right to not allow Federal ICE officers to use an "administrative warrant" to arrest someone in her courtroom or just outside to remove and deport him, and why her arrest on a "criminal complaint" is just show theater for the Trump Administration trying to intimidate the Democrats and the judiciary.

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Arrest of judge backfires (Original Post) struggle4progress Apr 2025 OP
Kick SheltieLover Apr 2025 #1
Those idiot Justices on the SC that ruled that Been A Dick Donald has almost absolute immunity MarineCombatEngineer Apr 2025 #2
I like that Been A Dick Donald doc03 Apr 2025 #4
I know. Somebody oughta make a memebox out of it. ananda Apr 2025 #13
I still bdamomma Apr 2025 #15
I'm so pissed at what they did! No other person would have gotten bluestarone Apr 2025 #9
We had the power to neutralize the corrupt six on this Supreme Court between 2020 and 2022 lees1975 Apr 2025 #23
SCOTUS rso Apr 2025 #26
may borrow and use that please ? thanks AllaN01Bear Apr 2025 #16
Please do. MarineCombatEngineer Apr 2025 #27
needs to be a chant @ a raoly of his . AllaN01Bear Apr 2025 #17
woo haaa. i see the pun now. i like it, i like it. AllaN01Bear Apr 2025 #18
They must be tired of winning?!? Swede Apr 2025 #3
must we ask for a summary? Tetrachloride Apr 2025 #5
Post removed Post removed Apr 2025 #6
I agree with you SurfLiberal Apr 2025 #7
Id rather ForgedCrank Apr 2025 #11
You appear to be on fire... SurfLiberal Apr 2025 #22
What disinformation? Cirsium Apr 2025 #29
They did not even have the proper warrant. Quiet Em Apr 2025 #12
i don't understand why arresting the guy outside after the MadameButterfly Apr 2025 #8
Attoroneys ought to be working full-time now on finding State charges to book the entire Trump regime Jit423 Apr 2025 #10
I'll believe it backfired after all charges are dropped, not simply because youtube says so. groundloop Apr 2025 #14
Can you provide a link Tickle Apr 2025 #24
One would think the "perp" BidenRocks Apr 2025 #19
The brazenness of it is infuriating. Joinfortmill Apr 2025 #20
Shit, that's all those Gestapo fuckwits got? Warpy Apr 2025 #21
A HUGE crowd of protesters march through the streets outside an FBI office in Milwaukee i LetMyPeopleVote Apr 2025 #25
Backfires? Cirsium Apr 2025 #28
I feel like a broken record saying this, but it has to be said once again tornado34jh Apr 2025 #30
This is a bridge too far. Joinfortmill Apr 2025 #31

MarineCombatEngineer

(17,429 posts)
2. Those idiot Justices on the SC that ruled that Been A Dick Donald has almost absolute immunity
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 03:18 PM
Apr 2025

should take note that now this criminal org. are arresting Judges, which should put the fear of god into them as it can now happen to them with that ridiculous ruling.

did they think was going to happen?

ananda

(34,243 posts)
13. I know. Somebody oughta make a memebox out of it.
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 05:06 PM
Apr 2025

It really is the best meme goiing.

bluestarone

(21,005 posts)
9. I'm so pissed at what they did! No other person would have gotten
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 04:41 PM
Apr 2025

IMMUNITY from any Supreme court except THIS supreme court AND THIS president!! I say to BOTH of them.

lees1975

(6,880 posts)
23. We had the power to neutralize the corrupt six on this Supreme Court between 2020 and 2022
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 06:10 PM
Apr 2025

but old line Democrats who wanted to stick to party tradition wouldn't take the steps necessary to get it done. Now we have this.

It's been described as bringing a knife to a gun fight.

Response to Tetrachloride (Reply #5)

ForgedCrank

(3,000 posts)
11. Id rather
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 04:51 PM
Apr 2025

be on fire than agree with disinformation. But then again, I have solid convictions that aren't subject to modification when the wind direction changes.

Quiet Em

(2,515 posts)
12. They did not even have the proper warrant.
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 05:04 PM
Apr 2025

The judge did nothing wrong.

The con and his goons are trying to destroy due process and our Constitution.

It's scary that there are people who don't seem to understand how close to fascism this stunt was.

MadameButterfly

(3,696 posts)
8. i don't understand why arresting the guy outside after the
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 04:37 PM
Apr 2025

hearing would solve the problem. They are still using the existence of the court hearing to arrest the guy, this will still drive the immigrant community underground.

This is not just for fairness to the man involved, but the woman also who might make different decisions about asking for a justice and protection if she knows a hearing means causing him to be apprehended by ICE. Given the possibility of it resulting in life in an El Salvadoran gulag.

Jit423

(1,568 posts)
10. Attoroneys ought to be working full-time now on finding State charges to book the entire Trump regime
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 04:41 PM
Apr 2025

charges that Trump will not be able to PARDON. Every time one of those GOP fuckers commits a felonious act in any state, an AG ought to press charges.

BidenRocks

(2,663 posts)
19. One would think the "perp"
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 05:26 PM
Apr 2025

Was guilty of mass murder or child abuse.
None of this is done to make us safe.
Hell, if I was afraid of Latinos, I wouldn't live next to Pacoima and San Fernando.
I being white and am definitely in the minority.
So what?
Chump's immigration crimes are just a cover for draining the treasury.
All the new gold in the WH chump says is real solid gold? Check Ft. Knox!

Warpy

(114,345 posts)
21. Shit, that's all those Gestapo fuckwits got?
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 05:51 PM
Apr 2025

They've been escorted out of courtrooms here in NM by big, burly bailiffs for a couple of decades and told they could pounce outside if they had to be assholes but their presence inside the courts would not be tolerated. They could do their fishing elsewhere, like the actual border.

(Yes, the jails do notify them when an undocumented person is going to be released so they can do a pickup. Undcumented aliens who FA, FO pretty quickly.

tornado34jh

(1,516 posts)
30. I feel like a broken record saying this, but it has to be said once again
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 12:39 PM
Apr 2025

They did not have a judicial warrant. An administrative warrant does not mean you can enter a private place without consent. Let me be clear, it appears that the person in question, Eduardo Flores-Luiz, was due for a pre-trial hearing that morning, the families of the victims were in the courtroom. From what I understand, it appears he did not have the hearing. He was facing serious charges. I have not found anything that suggests to me that he was arrested or in jail prior to this, unless somebody has proof to say otherwise. If that is the case, then that is the fault of the local/state police, because I find it very hard for me to believe that for someone facing serious charges would not be arrested and in jail, unless he was arrested and then he posted bail, which from what I understand, it didn't appear so.

Also, if they were going to arrest Flores-Luiz, why didn't they tell whoever runs the courtroom building in advance? What I mean is, why didn't they tell the chief judge or whoever does the rounds in the courtroom in advance? If the affidavit is true, and that his charges were of public record, are you telling me that the FBI/ICE didn't bother to find out when his hearing was due? Sounds to me like ICE/FBI is mad that they were embarrassed because they thought an administrative warrant meant they could just go a courtroom and arrest somebody without a judicial warrant. I have never been in a courtroom, so I can't speak for myself, but I would imagine that judges, especially these days, have a lot of people they have to see in the docket over the course of a day, never mind in a week. But again, I am skeptical of believing anything this corrupt FBI/ICE are saying.

Joinfortmill

(19,812 posts)
31. This is a bridge too far.
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 01:15 PM
Apr 2025

Congress needs to get their heads out of their butts and begin public hearings.

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