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Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested in April and charged with obstructing an immigration arrest operation, amid a growing standoff between President Donald Trump’s administration and the judiciary over immigration enforcement.
Dugan pleaded not guilty to the federal charges against her in May, arguing that, as a judge, she is immune from prosecution for actions taken in her official capacity in and around her courtroom. She also argued that the federal prosecution violated the constitutional separation of powers.
In a nonbinding recommendation issued Monday, however, Magistrate Judge Nancy Joseph recommended against dismissing the charges against Dugan, writing that “a judge’s actions, even when done in her official capacity, does not bar criminal prosecution if the actions were done in violation of the criminal law.”
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According to the criminal complaint filed against Dugan, she escorted the man and his lawyer out of her courtroom through a jury exit that leads to a private area of the courthouse — but it was not long before the federal agents stationed in an adjoining public hallway saw Flores Ruiz, whom they chased and arrested.
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