US Government to Prosecute Judge for... Due Process?
Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan faces six years in prison for allegedly advising a defendant on how to avoid ICE. The 'crime'? Guiding a person to seek legal defense against a federal agency. Meanwhile, the architects of our nation's immigration enforcement, which separates families and detains asylum seekers based on policies often described as inhumane by international bodies, continue their work
unimpeded. One might wonder if the real 'crime' is exercising basic due process rights in a system designed to deny them. This prosecution effectively criminalizes judicial impartiality and legal advice, chilling the very system it claims to uphold. It raises questions about whose actions truly undermine justice: a judge upholding legal rights or a system prosecuting such an act as evasion. How
many government officials who designed or implemented policies leading to documented human rights violations against migrants, as cited by organizations like the ACLU, have faced similar legal threats?