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“This criminal illegal alien has a laundry list of violent criminal charges including strangulation and suffocation, battery, and domestic abuse,” the Department of Homeland Security stated in a media release.
Flores-Ruiz had been in Dugan’s courtroom in April for a pre-trial hearing related to three domestic violence battery charges. According to reports, the accused had severely beaten both a man and a woman—badly enough that both victims had to be hospitalized.
That’s when things took a jaw-dropping turn. Learning that ICE agents were waiting nearby to apprehend Flores-Ruiz, Judge Dugan allegedly decided to intervene—on his behalf.
Pam Bondi, former Florida Attorney General, described what unfolded:
“The judge screams at the immigration officers. She’s furious. Visibly shaken. Upset. Sends them off to talk to the chief judge,” Bondi said in an interview.
But Dugan didn’t stop there.
“She comes back in the courtroom — you’re not going to believe this — takes the defendant and the defense attorney back in her chambers. Takes them out a private exit and tells them to leave, while a state prosecutor and victims of domestic violence are sitting in the courtroom,” Bondi continued.
According to the FBI’s criminal complaint, despite being explicitly notified of an administrative arrest warrant for Flores-Ruiz, Judge Dugan helped him and his attorney sneak through a non-public exit of the courthouse—known as the “jury door”—in what appears to be a brazen act of obstruction.
ICE agents did eventually apprehend Flores-Ruiz outside the courthouse as he attempted to flee on foot, but by then, the damage had been done. A sitting judge had allegedly attempted to outmaneuver law enforcement to help a violent felon escape.
Bondi said the Department of Justice initially found the claims almost unbelievable:
“We could not believe that a judge really did that,” she recalled. But after a full investigation, the DOJ moved forward with charges—and a grand jury agreed.
Still, predictably, liberal outlets like The New York Times rushed to portray the judge as some kind of martyr for the resistance, claiming this was an “assault on the judiciary.” No mention, of course, of the assault victims Flores-Ruiz allegedly battered. Apparently, for the Left, shielding violent criminals is noble if it fits the narrative.
Bondi wasn’t having it:
“It doesn’t matter what line of work you are in, if you break the law, we will follow the facts and we will prosecute you,” she said in a video statement.
Judge Dugan’s legal team is digging in, claiming she’s spent her career upholding the law.
“Judge Hannah C. Dugan has committed herself to the rule of law and the principles of due process for her entire career as a lawyer and a judge,” they said.
“Judge Dugan asserts her innocence and looks forward to being vindicated in court.”
But the facts laid out so far don’t exactly scream “misunderstanding.” If this is what the Left calls “due process,” then the American people have every right to be concerned. This isn’t about fairness—it’s about protecting criminals and flipping off federal immigration enforcement.
In America, even judges aren’t above the law. Let’s hope justice is served—and not selectively.
