As a Trump DOJ Should Know, Judge Dugan Has a Defense

Her team will argue that, when intervening in the case of an illegal immigrant, she was acting within the scope of her official duties.

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Left: Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks as she announces an immigration enforcement action during a press conference at the Justice Department in Washington, D.C., February 12, 2025. Right: Judge Hannah Dugan speaks during a forum at the Milwaukee Bar Association in Milwaukee, Wis., March 15, 2016.

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There isn’t any doubt that Hannah Dugan, the progressive judge who sits on a Wisconsin state court in Milwaukee, tried to help an illegal alien evade arrest. Her conduct was egregious. That doesn’t make it indefensible. No one should know that better than Trump supporters.

The alien, a Mexican named Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, is a serial immigration-law offender, who is illegally in the United States yet again after having been deported a dozen years ago — making him not just automatically removable but liable to felony prosecution. (Contrary to what transnational progressives claim, it is a crime to enter the United States illegally, but the crime is a misdemeanor; reentry after removal, however, is a felony, and the penalty can be severe depending the alien’s criminal record.)

Andrew C. McCarthy

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.

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