One of the most oft-repeated talking points from Democrats and media figures during President Donald Trump’s first term in office and the four years after was “no one is above the law.” They said it in part because Trump had the nerve to fight back in the court of public opinion— and courts of law when necessary — against the Democrats’ blatant lawfare schemes.
But it didn’t take long before their masks slipped off, once again revealing who they really were underneath: crass hypocrites to whom the rules – and their purported “standards” – don’t apply.
Such has been the case this week after the arrest of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan, 65. According to the FBI charging document, Dugan was taken into custody by the FBI for two alleged U.S. Code violations: “Obstructing or impeding proceeding before a department or agency of the United States” and “Concealing an individual to prevent his discovery and arrest.”
Judge Dugan, as Legal Insurrection reported, was arrested Friday morning after witnesses said she helped 30-year-old Mexico native Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, an illegal immigrant, and his attorney evade an arrest from ICE. The judge allegedly steered them out of her courtroom, where Flores-Ruiz was last week for a pre-trial hearing on three misdemeanor counts of battery, and through the jury doorway instead of the main courtroom door, where members of ICE were waiting outside for his hearing to conclude.
Flores-Ruiz eventually tried to flee but was arrested after a foot chase.
Though Dugan has since been released from custody, Democrats consumed by Trump Derangement Syndrome have escalated their inflammatory rhetoric, effectively nuking their “no one is above the law” talking point in the process:
At least two Democrats, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), went so far as to admit they didn’t even have the facts in this case, but still accused the Trump administration, without evidence, of undermining “our system of checks and balances” and “authoritarianism.”
From Raskin’s statement:
“Americans are watching with outrage the stunning news that Trump’s FBI has arrested a sitting judge in Milwaukee for alleged obstruction of an immigration arrest. While all the facts are not yet in, the implications of this arrest are chilling. This is a drastic escalation and dangerous new front in Trump’s authoritarian campaign of trying to bully, intimidate, and impeach judges who won’t follow his dictates. We must do whatever we can to defend the independent judiciary in America.”
Some of them had their own words used against them:
Prof. Jacobson also dropped an inconvenient reality check:
There was also this, which, though not yet the final word, nevertheless sent a powerful message:
Last but not least, there was this, which is insane when you think about it:
Keep it up, Democrats. You’re batting 1,000.
-Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter/X.-
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