On Friday, the FBI arrested the Wisconsin judge accused of helping a man to avoid immigration bodies, escalating the clash between the administration of Donald Trump and the judiciary in connection with the spread of the immigration of the Republican President.
Hannah Dugan, a judge of the Milwaukee District Court, appeared briefly at the Federal Court in Milwaukee on Friday, before she was released from custody. Her next performance in court is May 15. A crowd created before the court, chanting “free the judge now”.
Dugan is accused of hindering the proceedings and hiding a person to prevent arrest.
“Judge Dugan regrets and protests against her arrest with all his heart. It was not created in the interest of public security,” her lawyer, Craig Mastanto, said during the trial. He refused to comment on the Associated Press reporter after the court's speech.
Dugan is accused of escorting a man, Eduardo Flores-Riiz and his lawyer from the courtroom through the door of the jury on April 18 as a way to avoid arrest, in accordance with the FBI statement made in court.
The statement quotes the deputy courtroom when he heard Dugan says the words about the effect: “Wait, come with me”, and then introduce them to the private area of the court. The action was unusual, says the statement, because “only deputies, sworn bench, court staff and accused in custody escorted by MPs used the door of the jury. Defenders and accused who were not in custody never used the door of the jury.”
The director of the FBI, Kash Patel, said in a post who was later removed that immigration officials tried to stop Flores-Riiz, whom he described as “illegal alien.” The pan said that the agents later caught up with Flores-Riiz and stopped him.
Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin said that Dugan's arrest is “seriously serious and drastic movement”, which “threatens” the division of power between executive and court departments.
The US prosecutor general, Pam Bondi, said that the man was in the face of allegations of domestic violence and that the victims were sitting in the courtroom with state prosecutors, when Dugan helped him avoid immigration arrest.
In January, the Department of Justice ordered prosecutors to investigate potential criminal charges against state and local officials who make it difficult or hinder federal functions. As potential prosecution opportunities, the note cited illegally a conspiracy crime, as well as the law prohibiting people in the country.
Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in the USA on the weekend to condemn the policy of deportation of President Donald Trump, calling their end to proper trial. At the same time, the Supreme Court blocked the removal of migrants, which the White House planned to be deported in accordance with the war law.
Legal battles for immigration, deportations
The arrest appears when the Trump administration, within about 100 days, has already fought with battles before courts, with a democratic opposition, to enforce immigration law.
Federal judges ordered the US government to facilitate the return of two men who were not only deported to El Salvador, but sent to a sharp prison in this country-Kilmar of Abry Garcia, from Salvador, as well as a 20-year-old man from Malazuela, identified only as Cristian.
The guides were also lawsuits questioning government foreign enemies from 1798. It is legal grounds for some deportations, as well as reservations about detention of students born abroad who participated in protest activities in the USA.
The Trump administration deported over 200 immigrants, citing the Act on aliens – war – claiming that they were members of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang. Andrew Chang explains how Trump interprets the language of law from 1798 to avoid a standard system of immigration courts and why experts say this slippery slope.
In addition, the federal judge blocked Trump's administration on Thursday before suspending federal funds from 16 so-called jurisdiction of the sanctuary-all outside Wisconsin-who refused to cooperate with the hard representations of the Republican immigration president.
During the first Trump administration, in 2017-2021, the Department of Justice accused the judge in Massachusetts of hindering justice for the allegations that helped the man who lived in the US, illegally removed the rear door of the court to avoid the expectant immigration agent.
The prosecution of a sitting judge caused outrage of many in the legal community, which slammed the case as politically motivated.
The case against the Newton Shalley District judge Joseph was abandoned in 2022 under the democratic administration of Joe Biden after she agreed to refer to the state agency, which examines the allegations of improper proceedings by the members of the bench.
Dugan was first chosen as a judge of the County in 2016, and earlier he was the head of the local department of Catholic charity, which provides, among others, refugee resettlement programs. She spent most of his early career as a lawyer in Legal Aid Society of Milwaukee, who serves poor people.
Before election to the Public Office, Dugan practiced law based on Wisconsin and Legal Aid Society. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1981 with a bachelor's degree and obtained a legal doctorate in 1987 at school.