• @DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    1951 month ago

    Alternate Headline: Fascist Regime Attempts To Intimidate Federal Judges By Arresting And Releasing One

    Fascism is here friends. Arm yourselves. Help arm others. Train. Help train others.

    • Gina
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      231 month ago

      MAGA: so a stolen election judge you say?

    • @Muehe@lemmy.ml
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      181 month ago

      Charges weren’t dropped. Neither the judge nor the prosecution sought detention, so she is just out until the next hearing happens (May 15th).

      From: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/milwaukee-judge-hannah-dugan-charged-with-2-federal-felonies-in-ice-case/ar-AA1DCrnR

      On April 25, Dugan appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen C. Dries during a brief hearing in a packed courtroom at the federal courthouse. Dugan, wearing a black dress with white flowers, made no public comments during the brief hearing.

      At the hearing, Dries asked if prosecutors were seeking detention, and they said they were not. He answered that he did not believe that the charges were “eligible” for detention.

      As it ended, her attorney, Craig Mastantuono, told the court: “Judge Dugan wholeheartedly regrets and protests her arrest. It was not made in the interest of public safety.”

      Dugan made her federal court appearance a little more than two hours after she was arrested at the county courthouse at about 8 a.m. April 25.

    • @dhork@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      The article didn’t explicitly state it, but she was probably released on her own recognizance. (In other words, she pinky-swore to come back for her trial).

      Bail is just a tactic to compel the person to come back to court and face their charges by forcing them to pay a fee which they don’t get back unless they show up. This lady is a judge. She is unlikely to disappear before her court date, because it would affect all the cases she is in charge of.

  • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    121 month ago

    Time to arrest the judge that released the judge that was arrested for shielding the immigrant awaiting trial from summary deportation.

  • @jpreston2005@lemmy.world
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    829 days ago

    Releasing her doesn’t matter, the message has already been sent, the intention is clear. To intimidate those that would defy their fascist operations. To silence critics that fear retribution. To say for all to hear, “if we can do this to a judge, imagine what we can do to you.”

  • Bonus
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    71 month ago

    Because of course it’s meritless bullshit meant to smear. They’re sending FBI agents to deal with this ICE shit and it’s making agents resign. Not sure if it’s been reported yet. Just heard something through the grapevine. It’s not their damn jobs and it only serves to lend credence to a bullshit propaganda narrative so the cult will think it’s real. Forcing people to implicate themselves in lawlessness is an organized crime tactic. It forces those who can’t stomach it to out themselves and leave. Those who remain are confessing their willingness to continue to be lawless, even if they’re not actually willing but don’t want to quit and hand over all the keys to the mad king’s bad guys. This is how they dirty everybody.