'Extraordinarily troubling': Ex-prosecutor tears into new example of Trump 'lawlessness'

A former prosecutor tore into the Trump administration on Friday after Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested on charges of obstructing justice.

Former state and federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner filmed a brief video on YouTube after Dugan's arrest.

Last week, agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, a Mexican immigrant accused of misdemeanor battery, and he then appeared April 18 before Dugan, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.

FBI Director Kash Patel alleged in a post on X that she "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."

Patel then deleted the post.

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In the video, Kirschner said it was an "extraordinarily troubling development" because "either a judge committed federal felony crimes or this is an unjustified arrest of a judge and a further indication of the rampant lawlessness of the Trump administration."

One thing he said was an important takeaway: "It is horrifically poor judgment for FBI Director Kash Patel to announce on social media the arrest of a judge, only to have to take his own post down. Something seems a little fishy there, friends?" asked Kirschner.

Another comment in Patel's X post drew his attention.

"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," the post said.

Kirschner cited the Patel comment, "We believe."

"Let me tell you, sport, you better have something more than your belief that the judge committed a crime," Kirschner said in comments directed at Patel. "You damn well better have probable cause, strong admissible evidence satisfying the burden of probable cause to believe the judge committed a crime. And you sure better have had an arrest warrant before you locked up a judge, and not just your belief, such that you made a probable cause arrest without an arrest warrant."

He confessed that even for Patel, it "would seem ... too reckless" to arrest a judge without an arrest warrant. However, he then recalled that a judge said that Patel wasn't a reliable witness, so it is a possibility, Kirschner said.

See his full comments in the video below or at the link here.

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