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Posted on 06/17/2026 5:53:23 AM PDT by Red Badger
Once again, former Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan’s request for a retrial has been denied.
On Tuesday, a federal judge refused to overturn Dugan’s felony conviction for obstructing immigration agents.
Here are the details:
Dugan was originally scheduled to be sentenced for her crimes on June 3rd.
However, that hearing was postponed until the court could decide whether or not to overturn the conviction.
AP News reported further:
The case against Hannah Dugan, who resigned from the Milwaukee County Circuit Court following her conviction, was an early test of how the courts would respond to President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown.
Trump allies branded Dugan as an activist judge, while her supporters said she was unfairly targeted.
U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman postponed Dugan’s sentencing on June 3 to consider arguments about whether he should overturn her conviction. But Adelman said in his ruling Tuesday that Dugan’s conviction would stand. He did not immediately set a sentencing date.
“The court’s decision is wrong,” Dugan’s legal defense team said in a statement.
Dugan’s attorney had argued that her conviction in helping Eduardo Flores-Ruiz leave the courthouse was invalid and should be overturned. He said that was necessary because a federal appeals court in April overturned a key Virginia immigration case that the judge and prosecutors had cited in Dugan’s case.
In the Virginia case, an immigrant who was in the country illegally was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and later escaped. He was recaptured and indicted on a charge of obstructing a pending immigration proceeding.
The federal appeals court found that the ICE action did not constitute a “pending proceeding,” as is required under the federal obstruction law.
Dugan’s attorneys argue that she should not have been charged because there was no “pending proceeding” against the immigrant in her courtroom being sought by ICE agents, only a warrant filed for his arrest. The filing of a warrant does not constitute a “proceeding” under the law, Dugan’s attorneys argued.
Prosecutors countered that the facts in the Virginia case are different and don’t apply to Dugan’s. They also argued that other cases support Dugan’s conviction.
It is unclear when Dugan will be sentenced.
However, she could face up to 5 years in prison for obstructing federal agents.
What do you think?
Should she get the maximum sentence?
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Maximum
Want a second opinion? She’s ugly, too.
“Want a second opinion? She’s ugly, too.”
....and smells like pee.
It’s good to start the day with small blessings.
May she remain loud and proud with her time in the clink to make a fine example.
Lock her up.
How they do it in Detroit -
Suspended Detroit judge can be on ballot, even if she can’t serve, court rules
Since no one is above the law let’s go with maximum.
Why is all this focus on whether she should get special treatment? Because she’s a judge? She should get let off easy because she’s a judge? B.S. She should be held to a higher standard because she’s a judge. She should have the book thrown at her. Let her rot in jail and if she dies in jail, so be it. The idea that she should be allowed to break the law BECAUSE she is a judge is outrageous.
“The court’s decision is wrong,” Dugan’s legal defense team said in a statement.
Yes, max time.
Hannah Banana should be managing a laundrymat. The black robe had her way in over her head.
Give her the maximum and have her turn over her home to a bunch of illegal alien squatters.
Please, please let her do hard time in prison, and for at least 2 years.
What a ridiculous narrative. Her behavior has nothing to do with President Trump or an "immigration crackdown" and certainly not a "test" of said policies. She helped a wanted criminal escape Federal authorities. Hence, she was charged with doing so.
50 YEARS WOULD WORK FOR ME
MESSAGE NEEDS TO BE SENT
Can’t do the time, don’t do the crime
So many people here and elsewhere, on both sides, want to have a policy argument about illegals. Like, “They should stay, they should have this or that due process, they should all go, some of them should go” - and so on.
The policy is, the state enforces its laws. Period.
If I overstay a visa in France, or the UK, or Ireland, and I start working under the table or get a legal job with forged papers - I get sent home (if I’m lucky). None of the “no Kings” retards object to that in the slightest.
So, what they object to is the right of the people in THIS country to make laws through our representatives and to see then enforced.
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