Liberals across the country are up in arms over the arrest last week of a Wisconsin judge accused of obstructing the apprehension and arrest of an illegal immigrant.
However, the Trump FBI's decision to take Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan into custody has found at least some degree of support from a seemingly unlikely source, namely, the man who served as acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under former President Barack Obama, as Breitbart reports.
As Fox News explains, Dugan was arrested on Friday morning on allegations that she endeavored to hide an illegal immigrant who had been previously deported in order to thwart his arrest by ICE agents.
Federal officers from a handful of agencies attempted to make the arrest of Eduardo Flores-Ruiz of Mexico after a court appearance before Dugan related to battery charges.
It was then that Dugan told the officers to go to the chief judge's office, and when Flores-Ruiz's hearing concluded, she allegedly escorted both him and his lawyer out via a restricted exit away from the public part of the building where agents were waiting to apprehend him.
As a result of her conduct, Dugan was charged with obstruction of an official proceeding and also with concealing an individual to prevent discovery and arrest.
Not surprisingly, the arrest has spurred a host of heated reactions on the left, including from Wisconsin Democrat Gov. Tony Evers, who alleged that the Trump administration is employing “dangerous rhetoric to attack and attempt to undermine our judiciary at every level, including disobeying the highest court in the land.”
However, not every Democrat was so quick to jump to Dugan's defense, as John Sandweg, who served as acting director of ICE during Obama's tenure, outlined his objections to the judge's conduct on Friday.
During an appearance on NewsNation's Cuomo, Sandweg, while expressing concern over the impact on ICE cases such as this may have, noted that Dugan's actions were far from appropriate.
Sandweg said of what unfolded in Wisconsin last week, “I would like to see the ICE agents just pick him up outside the courthouse or pick him up as he leaves the courthouse. During the Obama administration, as you know, during the Biden administration, we had a sensitive location policy.”
“We couldn't arrest people in a courthouse. I think there are good reasons for that,” he added.
With respect to Dugan specifically, Sandweg said, “I'm not here to defend this judge. … I think she overstepped here. I think there are other ways to lodge her objections.”
As Fox News noted separately, Dugan's fellow Wisconsin judge, Monica Isham, threatened not to hold court as a means of protesting what occurred on Friday, saying, “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. … Should I start raising bail money?”
Unfortunately, despite all the liberal exhortations that “nobody is above the law,” articulated endlessly during the campaign of lawfare against Donald Trump, it in fact appears that the lion's share of Democrats do believe that those who sit on the bench are entitled to an exemption from that supposedly foundational principle.
