Mass. AG angry with Feds for doing their job

As a circuit court judge, Shelley Joseph was used to sentencing people for their crimes. But she believed that the law didn't apply to her and she allegedly broke it by helping an illegal alien and drug dealer escape being taken into custody, arrested and deported for the second time in his criminal career.

The Massachusetts state Attorney General Maura Healey was upset with the feds doing their job and indicting Joseph. Healey said the indictment "is a radical and politically-motivated attack on our state and the independence of our courts."

Actually, the indictment is an exercise in taking the U.S. Constitution seriously and upholding it, unlike the actions of Judge Joseph, who believed she could follow the laws she liked and trash the ones she didn't.

 Healey continued:

"It is a bedrock principle of our constitutional system that federal prosecutors should not recklessly interfere with the operation of state courts and their administration of justice. This matter could have been appropriately handled by the Commission on Judicial Conduct and the Trial Court. I am deeply disappointed by U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling’s misuse of prosecutorial resources and the chilling effect his actions will have."

It is also a bedrock principle of our constitutional system that judges and attorneys are sworn to uphold the Constitution and oaths are to be taken seriously and have consequences when broken.

The alleged drug dealer is reportedly named Jose Medina-Perez and is from the Dominican Republic. He  is still on the lam since he exited the back door of the courthouse while the ICE agent was forced to wait at the front door.

The District Judge, Shelley Joseph, was forced to appear at the federal court on Friday. She cried liberal tears as she left the courthouse, enough to fill my Daily Wire Liberal Tears Hot & Cold Tumbler.

The state ACLU branch also rushed to defend the judge. Patch.com reported:

“The Department of Justice’s decision to bring this case is preposterous, ironic, and deeply damaging to the rule of law,” Carol Rose, the leftist executive director of the ACLU of Massachusetts, said in a statement after the indictments were issued.” The Department of Justice has now charged a state judge and court security officer based on a theory of obstruction that is shockingly aggressive.”

It's about shocking time judges were held to the same standards as the people who appear before them.

“In this case, like so many others across Massachusetts, an ICE officer staked out a state court and made it difficult for court officials to do their job, which is to ensure that people in state court have access to justice. But instead of rethinking its own awful behavior, the federal government has now charged a judge and a court officer with crimes,” the statement read.

Again, the ICE officer was at the courthouse to arrest a known drug dealer who was in the country illegally--he was merely doing his job.

Had a family member of the judge died as a result of drugs this dealer sold to that member, Joseph probably would have had a different take on the guy. But people in power like Joseph are rarely personally involved in the kinds of horrible outcomes when the laws are broken.


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