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No. of Recommendations: 10
Sending in active duty military personnel is a political stunt, and a dangerous one.
Roughly 500 Marines based out of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in California have been mobilized to respond to the protests in Los Angeles, according to three people familiar with the matter, and will join the National Guard troops that were activated by President Donald Trump over the weekend without the consent of California’s governor or the city’s mayor.
The deployment of the full Marine battalion marks a significant escalation in Trump’s use of the military as a show of force against protesters...If you think a guy standing on a vandalized Waymo car with a Mexican flag is a bigger issue than the president sending Marines onto the streets of an American city and calling for the arrest of a governor for no reason, you may have lost the plot.
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/la-protests-ice-r...
No. of Recommendations: 0
The *best* would if there was tons of social media pressure and the Marines lay down arms and refuse to act.
Club 401K would have a win.
MY win..... would be that the chain of command bullshit is officially over---and that will be punishment in the future.
Y'all can have the black and red checkers pieces.
I want rooks and knights.
No. of Recommendations: 12
They’ve arrested judges, members of Congress, and reporters. What’s different about arresting a governor? Just one more step in eliminating or intimidating centers of power not under Trump’s direct control.
Right now we seem to be following Viktor Orban’s version of the authoritarian’s playbook. And the slavering drones continue to cheer it on while denying what we are watching happen with our own eyes.
No. of Recommendations: 4
They’ve arrested judges, members of Congress, and reporters.
For breaking laws. I love how there's supposed to be 2 systems, one for democrats, one for The Little People.
No. of Recommendations: 8
For breaking laws.
No. They’re being arrested for doing their jobs.
“For breaking lawa” is ALWAYS the excuse that authoritarians give for unlawfully cracking down on any power that can oppose them- until that time when they have completely destroyed “the rule of law” when that stage arrives, they don’t bother providing excuses for their arrests, except that they are labelled “enemies of the state”
We aren’t quite there yet- but getting there.
For historical antecedents to the above, see Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Pinochet, Stalin, Assad, Chavez, Orban. Take your pick. Trump is following the playbook.
No. of Recommendations: 0
Posse comitatus??
No. of Recommendations: 4
No. They’re being arrested for doing their jobs.LOLOLOL. So "doing their jobs" is now a euphemism for assault on federal personnel, interfering with federal officers in service of warrants and other crimes.
Here's Turley shutting the democrats up:
https://jonathanturley.org/2025/04/26/this-is-not-...But first, a previous case:
I previously wrote about the case of Massachusetts judge Shelley M. Richmond Joseph who was charged with allegedly helping an illegal immigrant evade ICE agents in April 2018. Joseph and court officer Wesley MacGregor were charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice, obstruction of justice, aiding and abetting and obstruction of a federal proceeding.
I was critical of the handling of the case. While Joseph was suspended for three years, charges were dropped in 2022 during the Biden Administration....because of course they were.
Anyway:
https://thedailybs.com/2025/04/28/jonathan-turley-...FBI agents arrested Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan Friday on obstruction charges after she allegedly misdirected ICE agents seeking to arrest an illegal immigrant who had a hearing before her on April 18 before escorting the illegal immigrant out through a back door. Turley noted a similar incident occurred in Massachusetts in 2019 and led to charges that the Biden administration later dropped, after noting that the judge had offered appearances via Zoom for some people.
“Judges probably can set Zoom hearings, it’s in their discretion, I doubt that that alone would bring further legal action, but what Judge Dugan did here is far more direct and arguably criminal,” Turley told “America Reports” co-host Sandra Smith. “You know, she got down from the bench and became part of what the law enforcement officials are saying is a pattern of illegality.”
“I mean, she helped this person evade arrest and we’ve seen this before in Boston in 2019, I wrote about a judge who actively helped secrete a fugitive so that he would not be arrested,” Turley continued. “She was ultimately charged, but under the Biden administration, they just dropped those charges and many of us were very critical of that because we thought the intent was clear.”
“She was not acting as a judge at that point,” Turley said. “She was acting as an individual who was helping the evasion of law enforcement.”Just like other people claiming I said something I didn't, you WANT this "Authoritarian" stuff to be true. Why? Because some part of you wants to see the country burn. I've yet to figure out why.
No. of Recommendations: 2
Y'all can have the black and red checkers pieces.
I want rooks and knights.
Spankee is still eating the Tiddly Winks.
No. of Recommendations: 1
But the cult will cheer!
And remember this is a completely different thing than the Jan 6 'Day of Love'.
No. of Recommendations: 5
Turley goes “Trump applogist”with his interpretation.
The judge did not help the defendant evade ICE.
That is a right wing fiction and Turley should know better
No. of Recommendations: 3
No. of Recommendations: 1
Judges can't interfere with federal officers, sorry.
Federal officers are not allowed with a judge in his/her courtroom.
No. of Recommendations: 16
Judges can't interfere with federal officers, sorry.
She has the right to run her own courtroom, and she did. And she didn’t stand in the way of the arrest. She just made sure the arrest occurred in the public hallway outside her courtroom.
That she deprived ICE of a photo op of them barging in and making the arrest in her courtroom is too bad, so sad.
What she didn’t count on is that these people demand immediate surrender and compliance and would be butthurt because she insisted on proper order in her courtroom.
So fuck ICE and their corrupt insistence that the judge broke the law. She didn’t.
No. of Recommendations: 3
She has the right to run her own courtroom, and she did
She doesn’t have the right to escort illegals out of her courtroom in an attempt to evade ICE. That’s not disputable.
No. of Recommendations: 3
She doesn’t have the right to escort illegals out of her courtroom in an attempt to evade ICE. That’s not disputable.
On the contrary. It is VERY disputable. The doorway she asked him to take, along with his attorney, led directly to the public hallway where ICE was waiting. She simply didn’t want the disturbance in her courtroom. Good for her!
No. of Recommendations: 4
On the contrary. It is VERY disputable. The doorway she asked him to take, along with his attorney, led directly to the public hallway where ICE was waiting
Erm, she’s on video leading them there. That’s obstruction, and she’s going down for it.
No. of Recommendations: 17
Dope1:
She doesn’t have the right to escort illegals out of her courtroom in an attempt to evade ICE. That’s not disputable.That's not only disputable, it's wrong.
Judge Dugan directed the defendant out of her courtroom through the jury’s private exit and
into the public hallway where ICE officials were waiting to arrest the individual, rather than force the defendant to exit the front door of her courtroom into the public hallway. Either way, he ended up in the public hallway.
Besides, judges are immune from prosecution when performing official duties.
Finally, who should we believe, keyboard Trump sycophant Dope1 or 140 former state and federal judges who filed a “friend of the court” brief supporting Dugan’s motion to dismiss the federal prosecution because it's batshit crazy?
https://www.jsonline.com/story/opinion/2025/06/09/...
No. of Recommendations: 4
That's not only disputable,
LOL.
Either way, he ended up in the public hallway.
…which is outside her courtroom and thus, outside her legal authority, if any exists.
Besides, judges are immune from prosecution when performing official duties.
Double lol. They don’t get to interfere in areas where they have zero jurisdiction.
The rest of your post is a limp appeal to authority fallacy. Do better, ChatNPC.
No. of Recommendations: 2
They don’t get to interfere in areas where they have zero jurisdiction.
Judges have absolute jurisdiction in their courtroom.
The people in the courtroom exited into the same common area where ICE was located. Thus, no rational claim against the judge can be substantiated.
If you assert differently, by applying YOUR "rationale" regarding the judge, any police MUST be allowed into the White House to arrest Spankee for his crimes. Funny, but the Supreme Court says differently.
No. of Recommendations: 8
They're kidnapping the children, they're kidnapping the seniors...
This is what “mass deportation” looks like, it’s government stormtroopers kicking down doors and ripping parents from crying kids while pepper spraying their protesting family and neighbors.
And why is Trump doing this?
Because he said he was going to deport millions and the numbers have not even been close to adding up.
There aren't that many serious criminal offenders.
Stay strong California!
No. of Recommendations: 1
they're kidnapping the seniors...
This is what “mass deportation” looks like....
There aren't that many serious criminal offenders.
Send Felon35 to CECOT. Meets ALL the qualifications of a CRIMINAL FELON IN THE US.
No. of Recommendations: 5
So fuck ICE and their corrupt insistence that the judge broke the law. She didn’t.
I hope when (or if) sanity returns to government, that all those ICE agents are prosecuted. "Just following orders" didn't fly in Nuremburg, and it doesn't fly now.
