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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 dont 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 presidents immigration agendaincluding its wrongful deportation of immigrantshas now taken up the mantle of antagonizing state and federal judges on behalf of the increasingly hostile executive branch.
Last week, Trumps director of counterterrorism argued that anyone opposed to Trumps immigration agenda was aiding and abetting terrorists ...
https://newrepublic.com/post/194453/donald-trump-attorney-general-pam-bondi-arrest-judge-warning

struggle4progress
(123,039 posts)Yesterday at 5:16 p.m. EDT
Analysis by Aaron Blake
The Trump administrations 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 administrations 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/
Rebl2
(16,236 posts)Should be arrested
struggle4progress
(123,039 posts)Dave Bowman
(5,059 posts)She reminds me of Irma Grese, the Beast of Belsen.
Quiet Em
(1,856 posts)The public is not going to back them on this sh*t.
AntiFascist
(13,260 posts)Deuxcents
(21,992 posts)magicarpet
(18,127 posts)..... in prison down there ?
dalton99a
(88,397 posts)Charge? Obstruction of justice (Her justice)
the one obstructing justice.
tritsofme
(19,130 posts)Its all about retribution.
SheltieLover
(67,233 posts)
rsdsharp
(10,724 posts)with neither a reputation or a law license.
lamp_shade
(15,192 posts)lame54
(37,893 posts)FirstLight
(15,019 posts)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!
lame54
(37,893 posts)They're not up for it
leftyladyfrommo
(19,710 posts)Barbie with a cruel streak that's completely out of hand. I never knew there were so many. Makes me kind of sick.