Attorney General Pam Bondi recently made an appearance on Fox News where she revealed some chiling, previously unknown details concerning the arrest of Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan who was busted by federal authorities for hiding an illegal migrant and attempting to thwart the investigation that led to the apprehension of both.
“The Judge learns that ICE was outside to get the guy, because he had been deported in 2013, came back into our country, charged with committing these crimes, victim is in court. Judge finds out. She goes out into the hallway. Screams at the immigration officer. She’s furious. Visibly shaken. Upset. Sends them off to talk to the chief judge,” she says in a video clip posted on X.
“She comes back into the courtroom. You’re not going to believe this. Takes the defendant and the defense attorney back in her chambers. Takes them out a private exit and tells them to leave. While the state prosecutor and victims of domestic violence are sitting in the courtroom,” she explains.
Wild! Attorney General Pam Bondi explains what really happened with Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan that led to her arrest by FBI:
"The Judge learns that ICE was outside to get the guy, because he had been deported in 2013, came back into our country, charged with committing these… pic.twitter.com/Af7a1JdJR4
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) April 25, 2025
The judge, who served on the bench in Milwuakee County for a decade, is now facing charges of obstruction of justice and concealing Eduardo Flores Ruiz, preventing him from being arrested following his pre-trial hearing a week ago.
“Dugan appeared briefly in Milwaukee federal court Friday morning before being released after prosecutors said they would not ask for her detention before trial. Her arraignment has been set for May 15,” the New York Post reported.
“Judge Dugan wholeheartedly regrets and protests her arrest. It was not made in the interest of public safety,” her lawyer, Craig Mastantuono, remarked during the proceeding.
According to a criminal complaint obtained by The Post, an ICE offer and a US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) official showed up outside Dugan’s courtroom April 18 with a warrant for Flores-Ruiz’s arrest for illegally entering the US, but were told by a security guard and a sheriff’s sergeant to wait outside until after the hearing. The complaint noted that Flores-Ruiz, 30, had been deported from the US once before in 2013. It was not immediately clear when he crossed the border again, and there is no evidence he did so legally.
“Flores-Ruiz, 30, was appearing before Dugan April 18 for a pre-trial conference on three misdemeanor battery charges stemming from a fight the previous month in which he was accused of punching another person 30 times after being accused of playing music too loudly, according to a police report obtained by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,” the article stated.
The complaint reveals that as the team assigned to arrest the illegal migrant waited outside the courtroom, they were photographed by a public defender who informed the judge’s clerk that “there appeared to be ICE agents in the hallway.”
After the clerk spoke with Dugan she “became visibly angry” stormed off the bench and confronted the federal agents, an affidavit from an FBI agent revealed. Dugan then demanded the group of agents from the FBI and DEA agents, leave the building unless they were there for a court appearance. Dugan told them they needed to stay away from her courtroom and direct them toward the chief judge’s office.
After Dugan had gone back inside, the complaint states, a deputy assigned to her courtroom told a member of the federal team that he had not alerted Dugan to their presence and added that the judge was “‘pushing’ Flores-Ruiz’s case through.”
After Flores-Ruiz’s appearance was completed with him watching from the jury box, the affidavit states, the deputy heard Dugan “say something like, ‘Wait, come with me’” before escorting Flores-Ruiz and his attorney out of the courtroom’s “jury door” to a non-public area of the courthouse, where the chief judge had advised the feds that they could not arrest Flores-Ruiz.
“These events were also unusual for two reasons,” the complaint says. “First, the courtroom deputy had previously heard Judge Dugan direct people not to sit in the jury box because it was exclusively for the jury’s use. Second, according to the courtroom deputy, only deputies, juries, court staff, and in-custody defendants being escorted by deputies used the back jury door. Defense attorneys and defendants who were not in custody never used the jury door.”
It’s time for the days of judicial activism to be over. These individuals are throwing away the Constitution because it doesn’t sit well with their warped worldview. Here’s to hoping the court system makes an example out of her.
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