People do dumb things in stressful situations. To your "I beat my wife because I caught them cheating" example, there's a world of difference between:

1) I walked in. An argument and a fight ensued.

2) I found out about it, went of and thought, and made the choice.

There's a hierarchy, including:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provocation_(law) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insanity_defense

I find it entirely probable that the judge didn't know or understand, in the moment, their situation and the implications of their actions. Indeed, I will go one step further. If ICE does illegal things 100 times, then it's reasonable to expect an unreasonable reaction maybe 10% of the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximate_cause

If I were a judge, and someone came into court with an "administrative warrant," I might not want them disturbing my courthouse either. I might want parties to feel safe there, and be concerned about miscarriages of justice if parties are scared to show up.