A federal judge on Tuesday denied Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan’s motion to dismiss the charges against her for helping an illegal alien evade ICE agents.
Last month a federal magistrate judge said Hannah Dugan is not entitled to dismiss her federal case on a judicial immunity claim.
“Dugan moves to dismiss the indictment under Fed. R. Crim. P. 12(b) on the grounds that she, as a judge, is immune from criminal prosecution for judicial acts, that her prosecution violates the limits of federal power under the Tenth Amendment, and that the indictment could be dismissed under the canon of constitutional avoidance,” magistrate judge Nancy Joseph wrote.
On Tuesday, US District Judge Lynn Adelman, a far-left Bill Clinton appointee, said Hannah Dugan has no basis to be granted immunity from prosecution.
“There is no basis for granting immunity simply because some of the allegations in the indictment describe conduct that could be considered ‘part of the judge’s job,’” the judge wrote in his ruling.
“As the magistrate judge noted, the same is true in the bribery prosecutions, concededly valid, where the judges were prosecuted for performing official acts intertwined with bribery,” the judge wrote according to The Milwaukee Sentinel.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported:
U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman has denied a motion to dismiss the federal case against Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan, clearing the way for a trial on charges she obstructed immigration officers who came to her courtroom to make an arrest.
In the crucial, long-awaited ruling, Adelman turned back the arguments of Dugan’s high-powered legal team that the judge was immune from prosecution and that the case was an example of judicial overreach.
Adelman’s ruling agrees with the report of U.S. Magistrate Judge Nancy Joseph, who recommended in early July that the Dugan case should not be dismissed.
In April, a federal grand jury indicted Hannah Dugan for helping an illegal alien evade ICE agents.
Dugan is facing up to six years in prison and $350,000 in fines.
According to the FBI, Dugan became angry when she found out that ICE agents were waiting outside of her courtroom last week to arrest Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, an illegal alien involved in a domestic abuse case she was overseeing. She allegedly directed Flores-Ruiz to exit the courthouse through a private jury door to evade arrest.
FBI Director Kash Patel said Judge Dugan “intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested at her courthouse.”
The shocking criminal complaint detailed Judge Dugan’s actions to intimidate federal agents and how she helped the illegal alien evade arrest.
Judge Dugan learned of ICE’s presence and angrily confronted the arrest team of ICE agents.
The video shows Hannah Dugan in her robes walking through the courthouse halls and confronting ICE agents dressed in plain clothes.
Later on, the illegal alien, Flores-Ruiz, and his lawyer are seen sneaking out the “jury door” so he could evade arrest.
Federal agents were then seen running into the street and chasing Flores-Ruiz before apprehending him. Judge Dugan put the agents in danger.
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