Posted on 06/13/2025 1:25:31 AM PDT by Libloather
CNN - When the Trump Justice Department took the extraordinary step of arresting a local judge seven weeks ago, plenty feared what it could portend.
Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan’s case will play out in the weeks and months to come – she’s pleaded not guilty to obstructing the arrest of an undocumented immigrant – but arresting judges and public officials isn’t something to undertake lightly. Critics warned of the chilling effect it could lead to and the precedent it would set.
Virtually nothing in the past seven weeks will have tempered those fears.
The fervor to arrest public officials who run afoul of the Trump administration doesn’t appear to be going away.
Since Dugan’s arrest:
- The Justice Department has criminally charged a big-city mayor and a Democratic congresswoman.
- A Republican congressman floated arresting 100 more judges who ruled against President Donald Trump.
- Trump earlier this week floated arresting Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
- And on Thursday alone, a Republican congressman advocated criminally charging three Democratic governors, while Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla of California was handcuffed after interrupting a press conference from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Some in the MAGA movement are now pushing for Padilla to be charged, though there’s no indication he will be.
Almost all of these situations involved officials on the opposite political side of Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown.
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Never mentioned in these lamestream reports are Kristi Noem’s statements on this:
“This man burst into the room, started lunging toward the podium, interrupting me, elevating his voice, and was stopped,”
“Coming into a press conference like this is political theater. It’s wrong and it does a disservice to this country and the people who live here,”
Padilla should have been arrested and charged.
Bingo! And the violence wrought by Democrats only gets worse from here on out, that much is very obvious. They have little else in their toolbox. Americans overwhelmingly reject their platforms and have for decades. They have no support, though they do have the high ground - only rigged elections, incompetent academia apparatchiks, corrupt judiciary and a fake media to play their games. Profoundly sad and pathetic.
Yeh, not putting up with the leftist theatrical nonsense.
The biggest unlearned lesson for the Democrats is they will not overcome Trump’s resolve. Trump lives to carry his fight to his enemies, I.e. the Democrats.
wanna bet a padilla fundraising email went out
before he was out of cuffs?
padilla was removed because of his behavior
security did their job
After proclaiming,”No one is above the law”, the chattering class is astounded that this administration is applying it to the Left .
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