A lefty Wisconsin jurist is threatening not to hold court following Friday’s arrest of a Milwaukee judge for allegedly helping a Mexican illegal migrant evade federal immigration officers.
Monica Isham, a circuit judge Sawyer County, defended Judge Hannah Dugan Saturday, claiming in an email to other state judges that she “has no intention of allowing anyone to be taken out of my courtroom by [Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents] and sent to a concentration camp,” Wisconsin Right Now first reported.
Isham, who in 2023 became the first Native American elected to the county’s circuit court, also threatened to “start raising bail money” for defendants.
“Yesterday, Judge Hannah Dugan of Milwaukee County stood on her Oath in the very building she swore to uphold it and she was arrested and charged with felonies for it,” Isham wrote.
“Enough is enough. I no longer feel protected or respected as a Judge in this administration. If there is no guidance for us and no support for us, I will refuse to hold court in Branch 2 in Sawyer County. I will not put myself or my staff who may feel compelled to help me or my community in [harm’s] way.”
“If this cost me my job or it gets me arrested, then at least I know I did the right thing,” she added.
Dugan, who has been on the Milwaukee County bench for nearly a decade, is accused of obstruction of justice and concealing Eduardo Flores-Ruiz from arrest following a pre-trial hearing last week.
Dugan appeared briefly in Milwaukee federal court Friday morning before being released after prosecutors said they would not ask for her detention before trial. Her arraignment has been set for May 15.
She faces a maximum of 10 years in prison if convicted on both counts. It was not immediately clear whether Dugan would be placed on leave during her case.
Flores-Ruiz, 30, had illegally entered the US in 2013 and was deported. It’s not entirely clear how he got into the US the second time.
FBI director Kash Patel said Friday that Dugan “intentionally misdirected federal agents away from” Flores-Ruiz following a pre-trial hearing last week.
The illegal migrant is accused of hitting someone 30 times during a fight that erupted over complaints that his music was too loud, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
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