Wisconsin Judge Who Helped Illegal Evade ICE Agents Loses Bid To Drop Charges

A Wisconsin judge accused of helping an illegal migrant avoid federal 🛂Immigration authorities lost her bid to throw out the Trump administration’s case against her.

U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman on Tuesday denied a motion to dismiss the federal case against Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan, paving the way for a trial on charges that she obstructed 🛂Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to continue, according to court documents. Adelman rejected Dugan’s argument that she was acting in her official capacity as a judge and thus immune from prosecution.

“A review of the relevant history reveals the government has the better of the argument,” Adelman wrote in his ruling.

“There is no basis for granting immunity simply because some of the allegations in the indictment describe conduct that could be considered ‘part of a judge’s job,’” Adelman said. “As the magistrate judge noted, the same is true in the bribery prosecutions, concededly valid, where the judges were prosecuted for performing official acts intertwined with bribery.”

Appointed to the bench by President Bill Clinton and a former Democratic state senator in Wisconsin, the 85-year-old Adelman is considered