A Wisconsin judge, Hannah Dugan, has pleaded not guilty to federal charges accusing her of helping an illegal immigrant evade arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, the New York Post reports. The charges include obstruction of justice and concealing a person to prevent their discovery and arrest. Prosecutors allege that on April 18, Dugan escorted Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, who was facing domestic battery accusations, and his attorney out of her courtroom through a non-public jury exit to avoid ICE agents waiting to detain him.
A surveillance video of the incident has been released showing Dugan in her black robes speaking to federal agents who were reportedly there to arrest Flores-Ruiz.
According to The Post, “In the footage from April 18, the ICE agents are seen going down a hallway after being directed through a door by Judge Dugan. These movements show Dugan trying to distract the agents’ attention as they came to arrest Flores-Ruiz, prosecutors claim. The video also shows Flores-Ruiz and his attorney going through a restricted exit usually used by jurors shortly after the ICE agents leave. One federal agent follows Flores-Ruiz as he goes into an elevator and later exits the courthouse, the video shows. Flores-Ruiz is later seen running north for almost a block before being caught by ICE agents.”
Milwaukee County
Dugan, a Milwaukee County Circuit Judge, was arrested by the FBI on April 25 and has since been temporarily suspended from her judicial duties by the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Her defense argues that she is immune from prosecution for actions taken in her official capacity as a judge and that the federal government violated state sovereignty by intervening in a state courtroom. Her legal team is seeking to have the charges dismissed, describing the prosecution as unprecedented and unconstitutional.
The case has sparked significant public attention and political controversy. Demonstrators have gathered outside the federal courthouse in Milwaukee to support Dugan, protesting the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policies. Democratic lawmakers and legal experts have criticized the prosecution as an attack on judicial independence, while the Trump administration has framed it as a necessary message that no one is above the law.
Dugan’s trial is reportedly scheduled to begin on July 21.
This will be an interesting trial. If she’s not convicted then all bets will be off on all cases – regardless of which side you are rooting for. Justice, trials, will just be a waste of time before a political vote where one vote can nullify any and all evidence. Imagine what would have gone down if Derek Chauvin, George Floyd’s cop, had been exonerated! It will become the norm all over the country.
Who would have thought, biggest obstacles to getting our Country back in good order, would be the democrats, their bias appointed District Judges, who are trying their best to cover up the fraud waste and abuse caused by allowing a corrupt old man, not playing with a full deck, to create these conditions of Government run wild, without controls, is not a democracy but total bedlam. Democracy is not allowing killers to feast on the American Public allowed by democrats, their open borders, the treasonous clowns they put in charge. Look at the fraud uncovered with governmental abuse an still being uncovered. Change is occurring and will continue to take place with even with the democrats trying their best to keep waste as their top priorities. Congress has to step up and stop these District Judges from trying to control laws that don’t exist and power they were never given.
WHO’S THE OTHER PERSON (JUDGE) IN A BLACK ROBE WITH DUGAN WHILE SHE’S SPEAKING TO THE ICE AGENTS?!
There are Judges that should never have the word “Honorable” in front of their names.