[mbrumlow]

I think it’s more weird that the person being a “sitting judge” is any party of the equation. At the end of the day judges are just people. I would be more worried about a system that proceeded differently because they were a judge.

[crooked-v]

A judge who's literally in the middle of an official hearing is absolutely a special case.

[prepend]

I would hope it’s not.

I would like for cops to be more humane in arresting people and stop going to place of work to grab people in front of their coworkers. But this seems like just as rude when they go to a “regular” person’s office in the middle of the day and arrest them.

The argument is that if they notify the accused beforehand they may flee. But I don’t buy this as many people will likely turn themselves in if notified. I’m guessing an ai could predict with 99% accuracy people who will self surrender and save everyone embarrassment (and money).

[jibal]

The discussion is about ICE arresting a sitting judge on a bogus political premise ... it has nothing to do with what you're talking about.

[prepend]

I’m talking about the reason why ICE was unable to arrest the suspect that is the nominal reason the FBI arrested this judge.

It seems as if the facts that the suspect was in the judge’s court and then not arrested by ICE at that point aren’t contested. And that seems like a weird thing to happen.

[jibal]

ICE did (and therefore were able to) arrest the person they wanted to arrest.

"And that seems like a weird thing to happen."

Um, no, because there are other things--the actual charges filed against the judge--that are contested.

[mbrumlow]

I do t think a sitting judge means what you think it means.

A sitting judge is a sitting judge even when they are at home sleeping.

[GuinansEyebrows]

Judges are "just people" that make up the only one of three branches of government that seems interested in maintaining a system of checks and balances.

[MyOutfitIsVague]

Our system has already proceeded differently based on peoples' statuses. Dozens of lawsuits were canned or dropped due to this election.

[whoknowsidont]

This makes absolutely zero sense. She was arrested because of her actions (or rather, alleged inaction) in court, as a judge.

She is not "just a person" in this case.

I'm struggling with the dishonesty on grand display by some of the comments in this thread.

[jibal]

She ... her ... She

[whoknowsidont]

You're right. Bad habits are bad. Thanks!

[kbelder]

Wasn't the judge female?

[jibal]

You're misinterpreting our comments because you aren't aware that they originally used male pronouns and then fixed it when they saw my comment.

[mring33621]

"I would be more worried about a system that proceeded differently because they were a president"

[jibal]

She would not have been arrested if she wasn't a sitting judge on a case involving an allegedly undocumented person. This is all about the Trump administration's ideology and whipping boy.