FBI Director Kash Patel’s announcement Friday that federal authorities arrested a judge over an immigration dispute marks a stunning development in the Trump administration’s power struggle with the courts — and mirrors a similar case from President Donald Trump’s first term.

The Justice Department's case for criminally charging a Wisconsin county judge for allegedly interfering with the arrest of an unauthorized immigrant is "absurd" and manufactured out of whole cloth, an attorney who chairs the state's Elections Commission wrote in a lengthy thread on X.