Well, we have now arrived at the Drumpf administration arresting sitting judges stage of MAGA's slide into fascism freak show kids with DonOld's FBI arresting a sitting circuit-court judge (locally elected) in Wisconsin on "suspicion" of interfering in an ICE immigration enforcement act.
And you can tell that Drumpf and his apparatchiks know what a weak case they have for having had their goons arrest this judge when Drumpf's bug-eyed, unqualified FBI Director Kash Patel jumps on Elmo's bot and Nazi-infested 'X'shitter platform to crow about it, and his unqualified criminal defense attorney Pam Bondi who moonlights as the US Attorney General ran to Fox "news," the network convicted in court of lying to the public about election fraud, to defend it even before the ink on the judges arrest warrant had yet to dry.
This is how banana republics operate folks. If this is kind of nation you want to live in and you want your kids and grand-kids to have future lives in, that's your prerogative, for sure. But there are millions of us, hopefully millions more, who do NOT want to live in that kind of America and there will eventually be a forceful backlash against the agents of anti-Americanism who are pushing this country toward an authoritarian, fascist government.
I hate to sound like a broken record, but Drumpf and his people truly ought to open up a history book and read what happened to the fascists who were defeated by America, it's western allies, and the forces of good and defenders of democracy in World War 2. There are pictures. There are documentaries. There all kinds of books written about it and movies made about it. One thing to be learned about history is that it does have an innate tendency to repeat itself and DonOld and his henchmen like Kash Patel and Pam Bondi would be wise to remember it.
Link: https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/fbi-arrest-judge-deportation-operation/
"FBI Director Kash Patel said bureau agents arrested a county judge in Wisconsin Friday, alleging she obstructed an April 18 immigration enforcement operation.
Patel claimed in a post on X that Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hanah Dugan “intentionally misdirected” federal agents away from a Mexican immigrant who was appearing in state court at the time.
The FBI’s arrest of Dugan comes amid President Donald Trump’s escalating battle with federal courts. In recent weeks, Trump officials have repeatedly called for the impeachment of judges who ruled against the government, deliberately misconstrued a Supreme Court ruling and appeared to have disregarded multiple court orders. Some judges are said to worry that Trump could tell the U.S. marshals to stop protecting them.
On Fox News Friday, Attorney General Pam Bondi called some judges “deranged” and promised to arrest those who help people who are in the country illegally."
When citizen-elected judges begin fearing their own government is going to lock them up for exercising their judicial independence, that is not a good omen for democracy folks, no matter how confident the bullshitting squawking heads on Fox "news" and the professional right-wing propagandists on social media are in saying it is.
---TFG
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