The FBI’s arrest of a Milwaukee County Circuit Judge for allegedly obstructing ICE from arresting an illegal immigrant who was in her courtroom appears to have sparked a Resistance rebellion in the Wisconsin judicial community.
As Legal Insurrection reported, Judge Hannah Dugan was taken into custody Friday morning after witnesses said she helped Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, a 30-year-old man from Mexico, evade an arrest from ICE.
Instead of proceeding with Flores-Ruiz’s pre-trial hearing on three misdemeanor counts of battery and domestic abuse — a hearing where Flores-Ruiz’s alleged victims reportedly were in attendance, Judge Dugan allegedly directed the defendant and his attorney out of her courtroom, and through a side doorway rather than the main courtroom door, where members of ICE were waiting outside for the hearing to conclude.
Though Dugan was released on bond, her arrest prompted the “no one is above the law” left and their media allies to accuse the Trump administration of “authoritarianism,” undermining “our system of checks and balances,” and crossing “a red line.”
As documented by Wisconsin Right Now, Sawyer County Circuit Judge Monica Isham responded to the Dugan incident by writing an email to all Wisconsin state judges on Saturday, where she threatened not to hold court until further guidance was given on the matter, and said she would not comply with ICE arrest orders:
“Guidance requested or I Refuse to Hold Court,” an email she sent after Dugan’s arrest to all Wisconsin state judges says. WRN exclusively obtained the email from a recipient on April 26.“I have no intention of allowing anyone to be taken out of my courtroom by ICE and sent to a concentration camp, especially without due process, as BOTH of the constitutions we swore to support requires. Should I start raising bail money?” Isham wrote.
Isham, who boasted of being “the first woman, first Native American, first minority all together (sic), to serve as a circuit court judge in Sawyer County,” also wrote that “Since January 20th I have endured many racial attacks in my court.” She also claimed that:
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 harms way.
Read the full letter below:
Take note of the language used.
Isham referenced January 20th because that, of course, was when Donald Trump was inaugurated for his second term. We’re supposed to believe that she never faced alleged racial discrimination in her judicial career (she was elected during the Biden-Harris administration) until that moment.
Secondly, the use of the word “concentration camp” is definitely a flashing red sign that this judge is woke. As LI readers will recall, the term was used often by Democrats, most notably by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and her fellow “Squad” members, in 2019 during Trump’s first term in office to describe illegal immigrant detention centers at the southern border.
It was also used in the manifesto of a man who attacked a Tacoma ICE detention center that same year using incendiary devices and who was shot and killed by police in a shootout.
In other words, this isn’t just a procedural “let’s get things clarified for future reference” issue for Isham. It’s about ideological disagreement with President Trump’s illegal immigration policy, which she, in her capacity as a jurist, is now vowing to thwart either by refusing to hold court, raising bail on defendants, and/or possibly pulling an (alleged) Dugan move by letting them evade ICE arrest.
As I’ve said before, thanks to leftists, including those in the judiciary, having severe cases of Trump Derangement Syndrome, we’re on a dangerous collision course and a dark path if cooler heads and the Rule of Law don’t eventually prevail. I legitimately fear for our country right now, and while I don’t have all the answers, the problems are making themselves even easier to identify.
-Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter/X.-
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