The FBI arrested a sitting judge for ‘obstruction of justice’

Federal agents arrested a Milwaukee justice Friday connected obstruction charges for allegedly interfering with an migration arrest. Judge Hannah Dugan of the Milwaukee County Circuit Court was arrested successful the region courthouse and remains successful national custody, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. Kash Patel, the manager of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), posted astir Dugan's apprehension connected X. He has since deleted the post.

Dugan's apprehension comes 1 time aft national agents arrested a erstwhile New Mexico region judge and his woman successful their home. Former Doña Ana County Magistrate Judge Joel Cano and his wife, Nancy Cano, were charged with grounds tampering and harboring an alleged subordinate of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang. (The medication has utilized spurious evidence, including innocuous tattoos, to impeach Venezuelan migrants of being Tren de Aragua members successful bid to exile them to a notorious situation successful El Salvador.)

The details of these arrests truthful acold are scant, but suggest that the Trump medication is escalating its crackdown connected migration - and progressively going aft anyone who helps undocumented immigrants successful immoderate way. More broadly, Trump's Department of Justice app …

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