Well, well, well. Recognize where we are.
EXCLUSIVE: Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge Hannah Dugan is under FBI investigation for allegedly helping an illegal immigrant defendant evade ICE agents who came to arrest him in her courtroom during a hearing Friday morning.
The defendant’s attorney was made aware of the arrest and told Dugan’s clerk, who then told Dugan. She allowed the defendant to hide in her jury room (which is normally off-limits to everyone except the judge and members of the jury).
The ICE agents presented their warrant to Chief Judge Carl Ashley, who sent them back to Dugan’s courtroom to arrest the defendant.
The FBI was notified about Dugan’s apparent obstruction of justice and is currently investigating.
More here…
https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2025/04/23/milwaukee-judge-helps-illegal-evade-ice-n2411753
Not sure if FBI tags along with ICE, but they should. And Dugan should have been taken into custody on the spot.
Time to change the headline, Owen: FBI arrests Milwaukee Judge
I wonder if jv can spin this damning document… Maybe he was busy protesting the arrest of a judge who allegedly broke the law?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/d62bd73e-a370-40e4-8d37-3cb70f6fa035.pdf
Sure seems like a purely emotional, amateurish effort by Dugan. FBI seemed to have no trouble at all getting statements from witnesses… and there were plenty of them.
Can’t help but wonder if the use of that stealth agent was in anticipation of just such shenanigans. Almost like they’ve experienced this all before, eh?
Gonna disagree somewhat, Wiz. This was a straight egotistical move. An ego so deeply engraved that she could look at victims sitting in her court room and completely disregard them.
“I, the almighty county judge, greater than and above all federal laws.”
But the amateur thing….heh! … spot on.
Played in front of so many witnesses, including the victims’ lawyer, demonstrates how stupidity can easily eclipse ego.
One other little gem: one news story mentioned that Dugan ‘ran a tight ship, no-nonsense’ courtroom. That’s another way of saying she was a real bitch to work for.
Doesn’t take much to add 2+2 and speculate that one (or more) of her courtroom subordinates were happy to make statements which supported the indictment.
Winning: WSC suspends Dugan.
Even the lefty 4-3 SC can’t deny her pathetic actions.
Next up: disbarment.
Courtesy of the WSC, Dugan gets to sit on her ass indefinitely, collecting her taxpayer-funded paycheck, while she devotes as much time as necessary to plotting her defense of the indefensible with her very expensive legal team.
That is always step one for public workers. Suspension with pay, then legal mumbo jumbo, looking bad for Dugan, then no more press at all and if you ever look it up 7 months later you will find Dugan was let off with a fine maybe equal to a 1/4 of a paycheck and has been back at work for 6 months. They just had to order the press to die and wait a month.