Bondi’s threat comes on the heels of the FBI’s Friday arrest of Hannah Dugan, a Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Attorney General Pam Bondi promised on Friday prosecution for judiciary members who cross the Trump administration.

Why it matters: It represents an escalation in the Trump administration’s ongoing fight with courts.

Driving the news: Bondi’s threat comes on the heels of the FBI’s Friday arrest of Hannah Dugan, a Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge, on charges of obstruction of an immigration arrest operation.

What they’re saying: Bondi said that the Trump administration will target judges who oppose the president’s growing immigration crackdown.

• “What has happened to our judiciary is beyond me,” Bondi said. “The [judges] are deranged is all I can think of. I think some of these judges think that they are beyond and above the law. They are not, and we are sending a very strong message today … if you are harboring a fugitive… we will come after you and we will prosecute you. We will find you.”

Bondi alluded to the Trump administration’s willingness to conflict with the Constitution.

• When Fox News anchor John Roberts said that critics might interpret such prosecutions as “expanding” the powers of Article 1 of the Constitution, Bondi said “nobody is above the law.”
• “If you are destroying evidence, if you are obstructing justice… it will not be tolerated,” Bondi said.
• The Vesting Clause of Article 1 establishes the separation of powers among the three branches of the federal government.

The other side: Dugan’s arrest shows that “Trump is going to use every weapon at his disposal to enforce his anti-immigrant agenda,” Pace University Law Professor Bennett Gershman told Axios.

• It’s a federal crime to obstruct or interfere with immigration officials making arrest, Gershman noted, so Dugan’s indictment doesn’t set a special precedent.
• But it does show that “invading courthouses, schools, probably even religious institutions as well to round up immigrants” is on the table.
• “It shows that immigrants who must appear in court to answer charges, even very minor ones, are sitting ducks for ICE agents, and it likely places many immigrants in a terrible choice between appearing in court, which they are legally required to do, and potentially getting arrested, or not appearing and facing new charges or bench warrant for failure to appear.”

What we’re watching: ICE arrested a New Mexico judge and his wife on suspicion of hiding an alleged Venezuelan gang member in their house on Friday.

• Despite the allegations and his March resignation, former Dona Ana County Magistrate Joel Cano and his wife have not been charged with any crimes, KOAT-TV reported.