Syndicated radio host Hugh Hewitt said Friday on Fox News that federal authorities appear to have an “open and shut” case against Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan.
Federal agents arrested Dugan Friday morning for allegedly helping an illegal immigrant who faced violent crime charges to evade immigration authorities on April 18. During a panel discussion on “Special Report,” Hewitt reacted to reports that FBI agents arrested Dugan after she allegedly helped Eduardo Flores Ruiz, an undocumented gang member.
“I’ve heard from legal experts on really all sides ideologically saying there appears to have been obstruction here, and that is a crime,” said host Bret Baier.
“Yeah, I don’t think it’s a close case, Bret,” Hewitt said. “I listened to Attorney General [Pam] Bondi talk earlier about how the judge escorted the defendant who was under the ICE investigation out the back door, along with the defendant’s counsel, to evade the ICE people in the hallway after engaging in a shouting match with them.”
Hewitt said that while judges are afforded respect, they are not above the law.
“Everyone is subject to the same law in the United States. A robe is not an invisibility cloak. I think they’ve got her cold to rights, and I don’t know what happens. I don’t know what kind of punishment goes for obstruction and concealment, but the way that General Bondi laid down the fact, it’s open and shut. She was breaking the law,” Hewitt said.
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Bondi warned that judges who assist illegal immigrants in evading law enforcement will face prosecution.
“They’re deranged is all I can think of. I think some of these judges think they are beyond and above the law, and they are not,” Bondi said earlier Friday. “And we’re sending a very strong message today [that] if you are harboring a fugitive, we don’t care who you are. If you are helping hide one, if you are giving a TdA [Tren de Aragua] member guns, anyone who is illegally in this country, we will come after you and prosecute you. We will find you.”
Federal officials arrested Dugan just one day after authorities took former New Mexico Democratic Judge Jose “Joel” Cano and his wife into custody for allegedly harboring a Tren de Aragua gang member. A video captured Cano and his wife being handcuffed by Homeland Security Investigations and FBI agents outside their Las Cruces home as officials executed a search and arrest warrant.
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President Donald Trump told The Daily Caller News Foundation Tuesday he is pleased with the pace of deportations under his administration’s hardline immigration agenda, despite pushback from Democrats and some media outlets.
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