The Patriotism of Hannah Dugan

Milwaukee judge who loves the U.S. constitution and history has fueled a national controversy.

By Bruce Murphy - Apr 28th, 2025 04:38 pm

... Her campaign photo showed the judge with a bust of Abraham Lincoln on her desk. Before getting elected a judge in 2016, she was a member or leader of several Milwaukee-area legal groups and charities, often advocating for the poor, including years as an attorney for Legal Action of Milwaukee.

But Dugan had lots of establishment credentials, serving as executive director of Catholic Charities of Southeastern Wisconsin, as president of the Milwaukee Bar Association and an adjunct assistant professor at Marquette University’s law school. In a 2021 article for the state bar’s publication, she described a “passion project” of having her picture taken in front of every county courthouse in Wisconsin.

In short this is a person whose life and career have suggested a reverence for the law and the U.S. Constitution. Now Dugan is being condemned as a rogue jurist who thinks she is “beyond and above the law,” according to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi.

The facts are not in dispute and were reported by Urban Milwaukee. On April 18 six officers from the Milwaukee ICE [Enforcement and Removal Operations] Task Force arrived in her court to arrest Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, a Mexican citizen, who was to appear before Dugan on three counts of misdemeanor battery. When the agent said they were there to make an arrest, Dugan asked if they had a judicial warrant, an agent responded, “No, I have an administrative warrant.” Dugan told the agents they needed a judicial warrant ...

https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2025/04/28/murphys-law-the-patriotism-of-hannah-dugan/