The order noted that the court was acting on its own initiative and was not responding to a request from anyone
That's a totally legitimate thing to say when nobody was really asking all that. Totally.
Edit also from the article:
An FBI affidavit says Dugan was “visibly angry” over the agents’ arrival and called the situation “absurd” before leaving the bench and retreating to her chambers. It says she and another judge later approached members of the arrest team inside the courthouse with what witnesses described as a “confrontational, angry demeanor.”
After a back-and-forth with officers over the warrant for Flores-Ruiz, Dugan demanded they speak with the chief judge and led them away from the courtroom, the affidavit says.
After directing the agents to the chief judge’s office, investigators say, Dugan returned to the courtroom and was heard saying words to the effect of “wait, come with me” before ushering Flores-Ruiz and his lawyer through the jury door into a nonpublic area.
It needs to be noted that the same afadavit said that they the DEA agents that were acting on behalf of ICE also saw Flores-Ruiz in the public halway going to the the elevator that went to the parking garage. Where they followed Flores-Ruiz onto the public elevator... and watched him get off, and did not arrest him at any point. Instead they got off on the next level and ran up the stairs like dumbasses.
In short, the case is total bullshit.
oh. and apparently, the door that Flores-Ruiz used to leave the courtroom leads to a hall, which is public, that goes out to the main public hall (where the DEA agents spotted him,) and in a different direction, out to the private hall for juries.
I'm a little surprised that the AP is spewing the same bullshit that the trump admins are. fucking hell. read the damn affidavit already. pay some kid to be a corespondent for a day and look at the layout. It's not rocket science.