Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), on Tuesday, celebrated the indictment against Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan and said he was “glad” that a judge who failed to follow the law was facing the consequences.
Dugan was indicted following her arrest last month by the FBI. She was charged with obstructing a federal agency and “concealing an individual to prevent his discovery and arrest.” Hawley expressed frustration at judges working against the Trump administration’s efforts to deport illegal immigrants and said they are acting like “tin pot dictators.” He argued that Dugan was neither following the law nor upholding it.
“I’m glad she got indicted, I hope they prosecute this thing all the way through,” Hawley said on Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle. “It is outrageous for a sitting judge to be trying to obstruct justice in the United States of America. That’s what this individual was doing. This is a clear message to these judges: start doing your jobs and quit obstructing the fair implementation of justice in this country.”
Hawley also lamented how “Trump derangement syndrome” has grown “so extreme” that judges are now violating the law. He said judges and Democratic lawmakers are “groveling” to illegal immigrants who are gang members.
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Dugan faces a maximum penalty of six years in prison and a $350,000 fine. She is expected to challenge the indictment at a May 15 hearing. Her attorney told the press that Dugan “wholeheartedly rejects and protests her arrest.”
Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, the illegal immigrant Dugan was accused of aiding in avoiding the authorities, was chased down by federal agents after leaving a courthouse with Dugan’s help last month. The Department of Homeland Security said Flores-Ruiz entered the United States illegally twice and has a list of criminal charges ranging from strangulation and suffocation to battery to domestic abuse.