Judges are arbiters of the law. They took an oath to uphold it and to ensure that justice is done. They didn’t take an oath to uphold the law as they saw fit. Or to inject their personal preferences and politics into decisions and actions.
But a weird thing started happening when President Trump began his second term. After he ordered the Department of Homeland Security to begin enforcing all immigration laws and ramp up deportations, some judges around the country took offense to that. They didn’t like that the president was fulfilling his oath of office to enforce all the laws of the land, so they forget the oath they took and began breaking the law.
Enter now-former Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan. She was so ‘offended’ by Trump doing his duty and protecting the country she thought it would be cool to help a migrant about to be deported escape ICE custody. ‘I’m doing what is right!’ she no doubt thought in her polluted left-wing mind.
Welp, that stunt wound up costing her a judgeship that will also now result in her loss of freedom:
A federal judge upheld the conviction Tuesday of a former Wisconsin judge who helped an illegal immigrant evade U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.
U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman declined to reconsider the conviction of former Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan.
Adelman also declined to set a new date for sentencing after he had already delayed Dugan’s sentencing from June 3.
Dugan’s lawyers said in a statement that Adelman’s decision was “wrong.”
Her legal team cited United States v. Hernandez, where an immigrant detained by ICE escaped, was apprehended again, and was indicted on one count of obstructing a pending immigration hearing.
He was convicted, but a federal appeals court overturned that conviction in April.
But the lawyers said Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, the Mexican immigrant she escorted out a private door of the courthouse to avoid ICE officers, was facing an arrest warrant, not a pending proceeding.
Judge Adelman, a former Democratic state legislator and a Bill Clinton appointee, was not convinced by this argument.
“At oral argument, defendant noted that ICE goes out every day to try to arrest people on the street,” Adelman wrote in his ruling.
He echoed the defense’s argument, writing, “Given the estimated 10 million undocumented persons in the United States, does that mean there are 10 million pending proceedings?”
? JUST IN: A federal judge has UPHELD the felony conviction against former Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan, who was found GUILTY of helping an illegal evade ICE agents at the courthouse
Dugan now faces up to FIVE YEARS in prison, disbarment, and steep fines.
FAFO! ?
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— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) June 16, 2026
Dugan was convicted of obstruction in December. She faces up to five years in prison. It’s not likely that, as a first-time offender, she will receive the maximum. But at 67 years old, any loss of freedom is substantial.
And she should do at least some time. She violated her oath of office and disgraced the judicial profession because of an idiotic belief that our laws should only apply to some people some of the time.
