Arresting judges is a good thing as judges aren’t above the law. In a healthy, democracy an AG wouldn’t be threatening judges with arrest, any investigation would be carried out in a proper manner, and there would be public hearings about everything. Politicans would wisely say “No comment” on any investigation.
In this case, the whole thing was engireed to send a message to the judicary “Play ball with us, or you’re going to get arrested”.
ICE had the ability to calmly walk into the court room, ID whoever they needed, wait until everything was done, and arrested the person out in the hall. Instead ICE went in and made a scene about it, to either force Judge Hannah Dugan to capitulate to ICE or to set up a situation where ICE could trump up obstruction charges.
Now, you have a facist AG openly saying:
“What has happened to our judiciary is beyond me. The [judges] are deranged is all I can think of. I think some of these judges think that they are beyond and above the law. They are not, and we are sending a very strong message today. If you are harboring a fugitive, we will come after you and we will prosecute you. We will find you.”
“If you are obstructing justice,” she added, “it will not be tolerated.”
Almost guaranteed that the defintion of obstruction is going to be streched to cover judges denying deportations to the El Salvadoran concentration camps.
Arresting judges is a good thing as judges aren’t above the law. In a healthy, democracy an AG wouldn’t be threatening judges with arrest, any investigation would be carried out in a proper manner, and there would be public hearings about everything. Politicans would wisely say “No comment” on any investigation.
In this case, the whole thing was engireed to send a message to the judicary “Play ball with us, or you’re going to get arrested”.
ICE had the ability to calmly walk into the court room, ID whoever they needed, wait until everything was done, and arrested the person out in the hall. Instead ICE went in and made a scene about it, to either force Judge Hannah Dugan to capitulate to ICE or to set up a situation where ICE could trump up obstruction charges.
Now, you have a facist AG openly saying:
Almost guaranteed that the defintion of obstruction is going to be streched to cover judges denying deportations to the El Salvadoran concentration camps.