It’s one thing when sanctuary city mayors berate law enforcement officers for assisting federal immigration authorities, a travesty that recently occurred in Rochester, New York.
However, it is quite another when a judge goes a step beyond berating law enforcement officers … and instead just decides to directly aid and abet the apparent escape of an illegal migrant from her courtroom.
Which is precisely why a judge was just indicted.
“A federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted a Wisconsin judge accused of helping a man evade immigration authorities, allowing the case against her to continue,” Politico noted.
According to a report from Politico, a Wisconsin judge apparently decided it would not only be a great idea to apparently side with an illegal migrant over federal authorities, but also that it would be a great idea to enable the illegal migrant to literally escape out the back door.
“Prosecutors say Dugan escorted Eduardo Flores-Ruiz and his lawyer out of her courtroom through a back jury door on April 18 after learning that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were in the courthouse seeking his arrest,” Politico added.
Dugan had reportedly blasted the presence of the ICE agents as “absurd” before stalking off to her chambers.
Then, Dugan reportedly informed Flores-Ruiz, “wait, come with me.”
Dugan then ushered Flores-Ruiz, along with his attorney, through a back jury door.
Tellingly, this door is typically used only by deputies, jurors, court staff and in-custody defendants.
And now, apparently, illegal migrants.
Including illegal migrants with a record of domestic abuse.
“According to court documents, Flores-Ruiz illegally reentered the U.S. after being deported in 2013. Online state court records show he was charged with three counts of misdemeanor domestic abuse in Milwaukee County in March. He was in Dugan’s courtroom that morning of April 18 for a hearing,” Politico continued.
Flores-Ruiz was ultimately captured following “a foot chase” from the feds, and Dugan was subsequently suspended from the bench in late April in order to “preserve public confidence” in the state’s judiciary branch.
Naturally, the media has now posited the entire saga as some type of David vs. Goliath battle … minimizing the inconvenient fact that it’s all over an illegal.
“The arrest of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan escalated a clash between President Donald Trump’s administration and local authorities over the Republican’s sweeping immigration crackdown. Democrats have accused the Trump administration of trying to make a national example of Dugan to chill judicial opposition to the crackdown,” Politico detailed.
Attorneys for Dugan have responded furiously to the indictment against her, arguing in a court filing that the “government cannot prosecute Judge Dugan because she is entitled to judicial immunity for her official acts.”
“Since at least the early 17th century in England, and carried on through common law in the United States, judges of record have been entitled to absolute immunity for official acts with a few exceptions not applicable here,” the attorneys’ filing declared.
The filing also blasted the Trump administration’s efforts to prosecute the judge as “virtually unprecedented and entirely unconstitutional.”
Admittedly, it is difficult to make a case for “entirely unconstitutional” when the entirety of the controversy boils down to the presence of an illegal migrant with a record.
Thus far, Dugan has reportedly pled “not guilty,” and the future trajectory of the case remains unknown.
Author: Jane Jones
