FBI Director Kash Patel announced the arrest Friday of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan on charges of obstruction for her alleged role in helping an illegal alien escape detention last week.

Democratic lawmakers took a break from championing MS-13 associate Kilmar Abrego Garcia to condemn the Trump administration over Dugan’s arrest.

Fresh off threatening foreign nations that cooperate with President Donald Trump, Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin (Md.) told Axios, “It is remarkable that the Administration would dare to start arresting state court judges.”

Raskin’s use of the plural “judges” suggests he may have also been referring to the Thursday arrest of Jose Cano, a former judge of the Dona Ana County Magistrate Court in New Mexico, who was found allegedly harboring a suspected Tren de Aragua terrorist.

“It’s a whole new descent into government chaos,” added Raskin.

Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wisc.) also found fault — not with those individuals allegedly breaking the law but with the administration enforcing the law.

“The Trump administration again is breaking norms in how it’s dealing with immigration, the legal system, and normalcy,” said Pocan. “This is stuff I expect from Third World countries.”

‘If enough of us act similarly, and strategically, we can stand with our neighbors.’

Democratic Rep. Greg Landsman (Ohio) told Axios, “They arrested a judge?! They can no longer claim to be a party of law and order. This will have to be a red line for congressional Republicans. Unbelievable.”

Ahead of Dugan’s arrest, Wisconsin state Rep. Ryan Clancy stated, “I commend Judge Hannah Dugan’s defense of due process by preventing ICE from shamefully using her courtroom as an ad hoc holding area for deportations.”

“She used her position of power and privilege to protect someone from an agency that has repeatedly, flagrantly abused its own power,” continued Clancy. “If enough of us act similarly, and strategically, we can stand with our neighbors and build a better world.”

‘The Judge’s obstruction created increased danger to the public.’

Patel indicated that Judge Dugan helped Eduardo Flores-Ruiz get away from immigration officials following his pre-trial April 18 appearance in her courtroom.

Flores-Ruiz, an illegal alien from Mexico who was previously deported in 2013, faces three misdemeanor counts of battery. The battery charges reportedly include modifiers for domestic violence and reflect that he allegedly punched one individual 30 times, then brutalized the woman who attempted to intervene.

Bondi noted in an interview Friday that both of Flores-Ruiz’s alleged victims had to be hospitalized.

“We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse, Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, allowing the subject — an illegal alien — to evade arrest,” said Patel. “Thankfully, our agents chased down the perp on foot and he’s been in custody since, but the Judge’s obstruction created increased danger to the public.”

Flores-Ruiz is now listed as being in ICE custody at Dodge Detention Facility in Juneau, reported the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Brady McCarron, spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service, reportedly indicated that Dugan is being charged with two federal felony counts: obstruction and concealing an individual.

‘No one is above the law.’

Chief Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Carl Ashley noted in an email to judges that ICE agents came to the courthouse on April 18 with an arrest warrant and identified themselves to security. They went to the sixth floor, where Dugan’s courtroom is located, and “presented the warrant as well as their identification,” reported the Sentinel.

Bondi told Fox News that when Dugan found out ICE was outside her court room, “She goes out in the hallway, screams at the immigration officers — she’s furious, visibly shaken, upset — sends them off to talk to the chief judge.”

Sources told the Sentinel that while ICE officials went to talk to a chief judge on the sixth floor, Dugan took the illegal alien and his attorney to a side door in the court room, directed them down a private hallway, and into a public area, reported the Sentinel.

Judge Dugan reportedly went before U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Dries during a brief hearing Friday afternoon and made no public comments. Her attorney, Craig Mastantuono, told the court, “Judge Dugan wholeheartedly regrets and protests her arrest. It was not made in the interest of public safety.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi noted on X, “No one is above the law.”

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The NFL draft opened with a lot more fanfare than usual in 2025, but received backlash just for mentioning the sitting president.

As soon-to-play athletes in the NFL showed up in fancier suits and bigger chains than ever before due to name, image, and likeness deals, the pageantry of the 2025 NFL Draft was unlike any other, as seemingly the entire city of Green Bay, Wisconsin, showed up to an outdoor rendition of the night that looked more like a music festival than a sporting event.

The night began, for some reason, with Commissioner Roger Goodell, former Green Bay Packers star Clay Matthews, and rapper Lil Wayne riding bicycles onto the stage.

Matthews then stepped up to the podium to begin the night and revealed he had a message from the president.

“I just got off the phone with the president, Donald Trump,” Matthews began, as the crowd reacted with a huge cheer. “He asked me to pass a message along to all 32 NFL franchises.”

Matthews then slowly opened an envelope before saying, “So let me tell you what it reads here, all right? It says, ‘My fellow Americans, the Bears still suck!'”

Matthews later posted a picture of his alleged presidential letter online. However, even just a passing mention of President Trump during the draft was enough to rattle a few cages.

One fan called the instance “s***ty,” while another who had “Trump for prison” in their X profile said to Matthews, “Another reason to hate you.”

One viewer even took the chance to call Matthews a “MAGA fascist.”

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It was a unique draft night for many reasons, but no more awkward moment was felt than one involving Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders, son of Pro Football Hall of Fame member Deion Sanders.

Sanders had an entire set erected and a draft party set up in anticipation of his first-round selection. The set was complete with a shelf of prospective teams’ hats, an interview area, and more. Unfortunately for Sanders, he was not drafted and had to address fans and media members after his name went uncalled.

“We all didn’t expect this, of course,” Sanders told fans. “But I feel like with God, anything is possible, everything is possible. I don’t feel like this happened for no reason.”

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As for the first overall selection, the Tennessee Titans chose Cam Ward from Miami with their No. 1 pick. The young quarterback thanked God for his selection as he fought back tears.

“The hard work that I put myself through, and just the unbelievable work ethic that I have — I just always had faith.”

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A group of Good Samaritans were seen in a video saving a mother and her two young children from an attempted kidnapping in Florida.

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office this week released video of the scary incident, which took place March 12.

‘More than a dozen Jacksonville Good Samaritans stepped in during a dangerous situation, potentially saving a mother and two children from serious injury or worse.’

The clip shows a woman desperately trying to rescue her 2-year-old and 6-month-old children from an SUV in the parking lot of a Department of Motor Vehicles office near Jacksonville.

Citing the arrest affidavit, Mediaite reported that the suspect “struck the woman in the face and then attempted to drive off with the children as she was unbuckling one of them.”

Onlookers noticed that the woman was being dragged from the moving vehicle as she attempted to save her children in the back seat from the apparent kidnapping.

Several Good Samaritans jumped into action to swarm the SUV.

Surveillance video shows the vehicle coming to a stop, and the crowd is able to help the mother remove the two young children from the vehicle.

The SUV then speeds away from the crime scene.

However, witnesses provided the SUV’s license plate number to authorities, and police were able to track down the alleged kidnapper.

Police bodycam footage shows deputies with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office apprehending the suspect at gunpoint later that day at a nearby shopping center.

In the police bodycam video, the suspect continually asks the officers: “What did I do?”

Police identified the kidnapping suspect as 26-year-old Yanni Human.

Human is facing felony charges of false imprisonment, child abuse, battery, marijuana possession, and resisting arrest.

“More than a dozen Jacksonville Good Samaritans stepped in during a dangerous situation, potentially saving a mother and two children from serious injury or worse,” the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office stated.

The sheriff’s office added, “This situation could have ended in tragedy. Your JSO is grateful for the quick action and bravery of the Good Samaritans who stepped up and helped bring the suspect to justice.”

You can watch video of the attempted kidnapping here.

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Senior policy strategist May Mailman revealed her proudest achievement during President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office during an exclusive sit-down interview with Blaze News editor in chief Matthew Peterson.

Mailman told Peterson that in addition to the secure border, which she says is Trump’s most obvious accomplishment, she has sensed a real “culture shift” with the new administration in office.

“I think there really is a culture shift,” Mailman told Peterson. “I almost hate the word ‘DEI,’ because nobody knows what it means, but I would say you’ve seen companies change their policies to no longer discriminate. In the government, every single office that is responsible for discriminating is closed. It’s gone. Those people have been let go.”

‘I think that that cultural change is something that we’ve really seen shifted from the government and externally.’

The culture war was a central focus of Trump’s campaign and now of his second term in office. The president signed several DEI-related executive orders in the first 100 days. These directives have also had a trickle-down effect across federal agencies that have worked to uproot discriminatory policies that valued one’s identity over merit.

“If we can have the equality in our country that is sort of the root basis of our nation’s promise, that you should be treated as an individual, that you should be given opportunity based on who you are, that change, what more could you ask for?” Mailman said. “I think that that cultural change is something that we’ve really seen shifted from the government and externally.”

“To do business with the government, to be a contractor, you can’t discriminate against people,” Mailman added. “You’re going to start seeing that more and more and more, and I think it will be a legacy item.”

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The MS-13 deportation case in Maryland surrounding illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia has reignited the debate over immigration law — and in the meantime, the media are doing what they do best.

That is, painting the suspected MS-13 gang member as a victim.

Abrego Garcia, 29, was initially deported by the Trump administration, which claimed that he was an MS-13 gang member — and also allegedly violently beat his wife in the past. As President Trump has declared MS-13 a terrorist organization, he’s made it no secret that he plans to deport all members of the gang.

However, the media has been focusing on the positive details in Abrego Garcia’s life, such as being a father.

“As you know, he’s a married father of three,” Pat Gray of “Pat Gray Unleashed” comments sarcastically, noting that the media is portraying him as “a saint.”

“Being a vicious MS-13 gang member, that’s just his night job,” he adds.

Jennifer Vasquez Sura, Albrego Garcia’s wife, even filed a protection order against her husband in 2021. In the filing, Sura alleged that Abrego Garcia repeatedly beat her, saying, “At this point, I am afraid to be close to him. I have multiple photos/videos of how violent he can be and all the bruises he left me.”

When questioned on the protective order by Michael Strahan of ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Sura deflected and refused to answer.

But Strahan didn’t press her on it.

“He runs an orphanage for dyslexic, handicapped orphans with ADHD,” Gray jokes. “That’s what I learned from the mainstream media.”

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If a nuclear missile were fired at the United States right now, would we have the power to stop it? Mark Levin says the answer is a chilling no.

“We do have the technology to knock [missiles] out of the sky, but are we literally set in place to knock them out of the sky? The answer is no,” he says.

Given Iran’s relentless pursuit of nuclear weapons, America’s alarming lack of a robust defense system like Israel’s Iron Dome, and rising tensions in the Middle East, Levin argues that the United States ought to have a much stronger opinion about preventing Iran from building nuclear muscle.

He explains how currently Iran lacks a strong air force, navy, and robust ground-to-air missile systems. The country’s resources are stretched thanks to funding groups like Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis.

The weak state of Iran’s government, which lacks popular support and relies on a “very powerful police state” to stay in power, makes Iran even more unstable but also more dangerous, as it pushes for nuclear weapons to gain power and prestige. Iran’s Persian people are often educated and pro-America, yet their regime’s iron fist drives this reckless nuclear ambition.

“Can you imagine if these Islamo-Nazis have nuclear weapons, and once they get one, they’ll have 101; they’ll have 1,001. There’s no stopping them at that point. Then you cannot pre-emptively attack them,” Levin warns.

Despite recent claims that he and Israel are warmongers, Levin insists that war is what everyone hopes to avoid. He argues that Israel, being in the region, would use its own troops in any conflict, not drag U.S. soldiers into war.

“I’ve got grandkids and kids. You think I want to drag anybody into a war?” he asks.

Levin doubts Iran’s leaders, after years of investment, would abandon their nuclear program through negotiations, making the need to act now even more urgent. To hear more of his commentary, watch the clip above.

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FBI Director Kash Patel announced Friday morning that the agency recently arrested a Wisconsin judge, claiming that she helped an illegal alien “evade arrest.”

Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested on obstruction charges, according to Patel.

‘They were asked whether they had a warrant, and the agents presented the warrant as well as their identification.’

The FBI director wrote in an X post that Dugan attempted to obstruct an “immigration arrest operation last week.”

“We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse, Eduardo Flores Ruiz, allowing the subject — an illegal alien — to evade arrest,” he stated.

“Thankfully, our agents chased down the perp on foot and he’s been in custody since, but the Judge’s obstruction created increased danger to the public,” Patel wrote.

He noted that the agency would have “more to share soon” on Dugan’s arrest and thanked the FBI Milwaukee for its “excellent work.”

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Federal sources confirmed Dugan’s arrest to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, stating that she is scheduled to appear in court on Friday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Dries.

Dugan’s arrest occurred at the courthouse, according to multiple Milwaukee County judges, the news outlet reported.

Dugan declined the Journal Sentinel’s request for comment regarding the investigation on Thursday. On Tuesday, she told the news outlet, “Nearly every fact regarding the ‘tips’ in your email is inaccurate.”

Flores-Ruiz, whom Dugan is accused of assisting in evading authorities, is reportedly a 30-year-old Mexican national facing three misdemeanor battery counts. His pretrial conference was scheduled for April 18 in Dugan’s courtroom.

When Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrived in Dugan’s courtroom, the judge allegedly instructed Flores-Ruiz and his attorney to escape out a side door leading to a private hallway with an exit into a public area, sources told the Journal Sentinel.

According to an email from Chief Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Carl Ashley to judges, the ICE agents had an arrest warrant.

“They were asked whether they had a warrant, and the agents presented the warrant as well as their identification,” the email reads. “They were asked to go to Chief Judge’s office. They complied. … They presented a warrant, which we copied.”

Dugan responded to Ashley’s email on April 21, stating, “As a point of clarification below, a warrant was not presented in the hallway on the sixth floor.”

ICE previously arrested two individuals at the same courthouse in March and April.

The FBI did not respond to requests for comment from the Journal Sentinel.

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