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MAGA meltdown as unapologetic judge walks free for defying Trump
A Judge, a Fine, and the Machinery of FearThe Sentence Is the DistractionFormer Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan got a $5,000 fine and no jail time after a jury convicted her of obstructing a federal immigration proceeding. That is the fact pattern the news can easily reduce to a courtroom anecdote. It is not the point. The point is that a judge was punished, publicly staged, and turned into a lesson for everyone else about what happens when you interfere with immigration enforcement.Dugan said she was trying to do the right thing when she steered an undocumented defendant away…
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