Former Obama Lawyer Basic Eric Holder criticized FBI Director Kash Patel for posting a photograph of Milwaukee Decide Hannah Dugan in handcuffs Friday after she was arrested on federal prices for obstructing ICE efforts to arrest an unlawful alien outdoors her courtroom April 18. Patel posted the photograph of the again of Dugan along with her arms in cuffs as she was being led away by FBI brokers with the message, “Nobody is above the regulation.”
Holder accused Patel attempting to “attempting to maximise intimidation” by violating a Justice Division rule established by Holder limiting the discharge of photographs of federal defendants.
Nobody is above the regulation pic.twitter.com/TSrQ4GNMdA
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) April 26, 2025
A second photograph displaying that the heavyset Duggan was secured by two pairs of handcuffs behind her again was posted by Fox Enterprise anchor Elizabeth MacDonald:
Photographs of Decide Hannah Dugan’s arrest by the FBI as we speak on the Milwaukee County Courthouse. Now charged with 2 felonies-obstructing a U.S. company & concealing a person to cease an arrest. Each carry a max penalty of 6 years and a $350K positive. @FBI @PamBondi pic.twitter.com/MzhQkPAji1
— Elizabeth MacDonald (@LizMacDonaldFOX) April 25, 2025
Holder’s feedback on Patel were reported by CNN (excerpt):
In line with the Confidentiality and Media Contacts Policy listed on the Justice Division’s web site, DOJ personnel “shouldn’t voluntarily disclose {a photograph} of a defendant until it serves a regulation enforcement operate or until the {photograph} is already a part of the general public file within the case.”
Former Lawyer Basic Eric Holder, who applied the coverage throughout the Obama administration, labored throughout his tenure to make it tougher for members of the media to acquire photographs of defendants, corresponding to mug pictures.
Holder instructed CNN that Patel’s social media put up violates this coverage.
“Regardless of the points with what the decide did, they’re attempting to maximise intimidation,” Holder stated in an announcement to CNN.
Dugan is accused of two felonies for obstructing the ICE arrest of Eduardo Flores Ruiz, an unlawful alien from Mexico who was in her courtroom for home violence prices of beating his roommates.
Dugan is accused of distracting the federal arrest occasion by sending them to fulfill with the chief decide of the courtroom after which sneaking Flores Ruiz and his lawyer out a non-public facet door of her courtroom to assist him evade arrest. Flores Ruiz was arrested after he fled the courthouse following a foot chase.
The surprising particulars of the prison criticism towards Dugan may be learn in this report by TGP’s Cristina Laila.
Eric Holder was a campus radical at Columbia, helping to take over an empty ROTC office in 1970 to make it a “Black lounge” for Black college students.
Holder served as President Barack Obama’s lawyer common from 2009-2015. Holder famously proclaimed himself to be Obama’s “wing-man” in 2013. Holder was held in contempt by a bipartisan vote within the Republican led Congress in 2012 over his refusal at hand over paperwork associated to the lethal Quick and Livid federal gunrunning scheme to Mexico.
Holder has labored the previous a number of years on redistricting efforts in states to help Democrats acquire a everlasting majority in Congress.
