On Friday morning, FBI Director Kash Patel announced on X that the FBI had arrested a state judge in Wisconsin, allegedly over her efforts to keep Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents out of her courtroom while she was adjudicating a case involving an immigrant they were targeting.

Patel bragged about the arrest on social media, then deleted the post, which claimed there was evidence of Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan “obstructing an immigration arrest operation” on April 18.

“We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be,” Patel wrote.

The FBI just arrested a sitting judge.

The U.S. Marshals office confirmed the arrest shortly after Patel published the post. Dugan later appeared before a U.S. District Court judge, where she was charged by federal officials with two felonies relating to obstructing or impeding an arrest, and concealing an individual to prevent an arrest.

Dugan’s arrest is the first publicly known example of the Trump administration arresting a local official for allegedly obstructing its immigration policies, The Washington Post reported. The arrest came after right-wing media in Wisconsin sensationalized Dugan’s actions earlier this week.

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