Judges Are Slowing Down Trump’s Fascist Deportation Regime. Now He’s Arresting Them For It.
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In the absence of opposition party challenges and disempowered labor, courts are one of the few sites of meaningful pushback on Trump’s agenda.

Judges Are Slowing Down Trump’s Fascist Deportation Regime. Now He’s Arresting Them For It.

The FBI arrested a sitting judge in a Milwaukee County court in Wisconsin on Friday, claiming that she obstructed immigration enforcement agents from detaining an undocumented immigrant in her courtroom.

Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan’s arrest is not only the latest escalation in Donald Trump’s fascist deportation program, it also marks the administration’s eagerness to take aim at any and all constraints on its power to act.

“We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse,” FBI director Kash Patel in a post on X. Patel added that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents “chased down the perp on foot and he’s been in custody since.”

In the absence of opposition party challenges and disempowered labor, courts are one of the few sites of meaningful pushback on Trump’s agenda.

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Less and less land of the free, more and more home of the brave.

It’s over boys. It’s second amendment or nothing now.

  • Nollij@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    41·
    11 hours ago

    Because the press is complicit, they are intentionally avoiding that word. They usually say something like “annex” or something similarly soft and benign.

    Except that’s not what’s being discussed. Attempting to forcefully “annex” a sovereign country already has a name, and that’s “invasion.”

    • Letstakealook@lemm.ee
      14·
      10 hours ago

      It isn’t implied at all. Even the Wikipedia page states he specifically ruled out military force. This is hysterics and misinformation. He does enough bullshit that people don’t need to make shit up. The media frequently reports what he says verbatim, and he often makes statements on the internet that are forever. At no point has he threatened an invasion of Canada.