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WarGamer

(18,249 posts)
Tue May 13, 2025, 07:55 PM May 2025

Federal grand jury indicts Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan in ICE case

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2025/05/13/milwaukee-judge-hannah-dugan-federal-grand-jury/83459305007/

A federal grand jury indicted Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan May 13 after a daylong hearing on charges she tried to help an undocumented immigrant escape arrest last month.

The two-page indictment accuses Dugan, 66, of obstructing a U.S. agency and concealing an individual to prevent an arrest. The two charges carry a maximum penalty of six years in prison and a $350,000 fine, but sentences in cases involving nonviolent offenses typically are shorter.

Dugan was indicted after a string of witnesses entered the historic federal courthouse in downtown Milwaukee throughout the day May 13 to testify before the grand jury.


Like most know... you can indict anyone, even the proverbial ham sandwich.

Let's see if it makes it to trial... and what the Jury thinks.
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Federal grand jury indicts Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan in ICE case (Original Post) WarGamer May 2025 OP
Is she still in custody ??? a kennedy May 2025 #1
no, she was released the day she was arrested. WarGamer May 2025 #2
Thank you...... a kennedy May 2025 #3
She's suspended from Tickle May 2025 #4
She has a bunch of kick ass attorneys! SheltieLover May 2025 #5
Paul Clement Joins Arrested Milwaukee Judge's Legal Team LetMyPeopleVote May 2025 #7
Well, well, isn't this an interesting development? SheltieLover May 2025 #8
Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan has filed a motion to dismiss, saying judicial acts are immune from prosecution LetMyPeopleVote May 2025 #6

a kennedy

(35,297 posts)
1. Is she still in custody ???
Tue May 13, 2025, 08:00 PM
May 2025

and seriously WTAF??? Who is coming to her defense??? Oh my gawd this just makes me sick. 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬

SheltieLover

(76,798 posts)
5. She has a bunch of kick ass attorneys!
Tue May 13, 2025, 08:20 PM
May 2025

Sorry no link, but there was a post a few days ago that made me smile.

LetMyPeopleVote

(174,959 posts)
7. Paul Clement Joins Arrested Milwaukee Judge's Legal Team
Wed May 14, 2025, 01:21 PM
May 2025

Clement will have fun with this weak case



https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/paul-clement-joins-arrested-milwaukee-judges-legal-team

Conservative litigator Paul Clement has joined the legal team representing Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan (D), who was arrested last week for allegedly helping a migrant evade federal immigration officers.

Clement, who’s participated in more than 100 US Supreme Court arguments, is joining a defense anchored by Steven M. Biskupic, the former US Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Together, the two Wisconsin natives will take on lawyers from Biskupic’s former office. They’re joined by lawyers from Milwaukee firms Mastantuono Coffee & Thomas SC and Gimbel Reilly Guerin & Brown.

Clement, the former US Solicitor General known for representing conservative causes and groups such as the National Rifle Association, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

He is representing WilmerHale, which is suing the Trump administration over an executive order targeting the firm. His representation is one a several high-profile rebuffs to the administration’s executive orders seeking to reign in international law firms the president perceives as political foes.

Federal prosecutors allege Dugan concealed an unlawful migrant and obstructed officers when she allegedly steered the man—who was present for a hearing on domestic violence charges—and his lawyer into a private hallway, away from officers seeking to arrest him. Dugan, who was re-elected to a six-year term in 2022, faces up to six years in prison, prosecutors said during her initial appearance Friday before Magistrate Judge Stephen C. Dries.

LetMyPeopleVote

(174,959 posts)
6. Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan has filed a motion to dismiss, saying judicial acts are immune from prosecution
Wed May 14, 2025, 01:20 PM
May 2025

This is a fun filing because is cited the SCOTUS trump immunity case




Here is a link to the filing
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wied.111896/gov.uscourts.wied.111896.15.0.pdf
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