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struggle4progress

(123,039 posts)
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 02:16 PM Apr 26

Bondi Warns Arrested Judge Is Just the Beginning

Edith Olmsted
April 25, 2025/3:24 p.m. ET

... “I think some of these judges think they are beyond and above the law, and they are not,” Bondi said. “And we are sending a very strong message today: If you are harboring a fugitive, we don’t care who you are, if you are helping hide one, if you are giving a TdA member guns, anyone who is illegally in this country, we will come after you and we will prosecute you. We will find you.”

Crucially, Dugan is not accused of supplying a member of Tren de Aragua with guns. She is charged with two federal counts of obstruction, one for concealing a person from discovery and arrest, and another for obstruction of federal government proceedings ...

Bondi, who has been a fierce defender of the president’s immigration agenda—including its wrongful deportation of immigrants—has now taken up the mantle of antagonizing state and federal judges on behalf of the increasingly hostile executive branch.

Last week, Trump’s director of counterterrorism argued that anyone opposed to Trump’s immigration agenda was “aiding and abetting” terrorists ...

https://newrepublic.com/post/194453/donald-trump-attorney-general-pam-bondi-arrest-judge-warning

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struggle4progress

(123,039 posts)
1. Bondi's striking comments on arresting judges
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 02:19 PM
Apr 26

Yesterday at 5:16 p.m. EDT
Analysis by Aaron Blake

The Trump administration’s brash moves to crack down on illegal immigration entered a fraught new phase Friday, with the FBI arrest of a local Wisconsin judge who was charged with obstructing the arrest of an immigrant.

This is, needless to say, a significant escalation of the administration’s efforts. Any time you are arresting judges, you enter yet more constitutionally dicey territory, with the administration already flouting and resisting judges’ orders. And the backdrop looms large here: The administration has, in recent weeks, ramped up its attacks against who it labels as radical activist judges who have ruled against many of its immigration actions. (In actuality, several of the judges have been Republican and even Trump appointees.) ...

Some Democrats responded by offering cautious statements that allowed for the idea that the judge might have actually done something very bad. But many others pitched this as an obvious effort to intimidate a judiciary that has stood up to Trump. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) labeled it “an attack on the separation of powers, and we will fight this with everything we have.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/25/pam-bondis-striking-comments-arresting-judges/

Quiet Em

(1,856 posts)
3. It's the beginning of the end for Bondi and the con's authoritarian overreach.
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 02:23 PM
Apr 26

The public is not going to back them on this sh*t.

magicarpet

(18,127 posts)
6. Will Pam Bondi be shipping these arrested judges on a secret military plane to El Salvador and locking them in,...
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 02:40 PM
Apr 26

..... in prison down there ?

dalton99a

(88,397 posts)
7. NEXT: AG Barbie threatens to prosecute jurors who refuse to convict
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 02:42 PM
Apr 26

Charge? Obstruction of justice (Her justice)

tritsofme

(19,130 posts)
8. No coincidence I'm sure that many J6 insurrectionists were charged for "obstruction of federal government proceeding"
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 02:47 PM
Apr 26

It’s all about retribution.

rsdsharp

(10,724 posts)
10. I predict that Ms. Bondi will come out of this administration
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 02:58 PM
Apr 26

with neither a reputation or a law license.

FirstLight

(15,019 posts)
16. Not if there's no more judges...
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 06:39 PM
Apr 26

I think that's the end game. They lock up all the liberal judges, and then they can do whatever they want. There won't be any hearings or day in court for any of them!

leftyladyfrommo

(19,710 posts)
17. She's a real piece of work. Another blonde
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 07:40 PM
Apr 26

Barbie with a cruel streak that's completely out of hand. I never knew there were so many. Makes me kind of sick.

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