The Trump administration is under non-stop attack for disobeying orders by federal district court judges, which I don’t believe it has done. The judiciary, we are told, must reign supreme. Judicial orders are the last word.
But some judges aren’t helping to uphold that image. Thus, we have former New Mexico Magistrate Judge Jose Cano (a Democrat) and his wife, Nancy Cano, under arrest for harboring a Tren de Aragua Venezuelan in their home. No doubt they were just trying to uphold the rule of law.
In Wisconsin, Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan is under arrest and charged with two felonies for helping an illegal alien escape from her courtroom so that he could escape apprehension by ICE agents who were waiting in the corridor outside the courtroom:
After Flores-Ruiz’s appearance was completed with him watching from the jury box, the affidavit states, the deputy heard Dugan “say something like, ‘Wait, come with me’” before escorting Flores-Ruiz and his attorney out of the courtroom’s “jury door” to a non-public area of the courthouse, where the chief judge had advised the feds that they could not arrest Flores-Ruiz.
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Flores-Ruiz and his attorney made it out of the courthouse before the suspect was arrested by a FBI and DEA agent following a brief foot chase.
You can’t make this stuff up. Conduct like that of Cano and Dugan casts considerable doubt on the claim by liberal advocates of judicial supremacy that they aren’t in favor of illegal immigration, but are only concerned with due process.
Along those lines, the reaction to Judge Dugan’s arrest by left-wing Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin is notable:
“Make no mistake, we do not have kings in this country and we are a democracy governed by laws that everyone must abide by,” Baldwin said.
Except illegal aliens and judges, apparently.
“By relentlessly attacking the judicial system, flouting court orders and arresting a sitting judge, this president is putting those basic democratic values that Wisconsinites hold dear on the line.
“While details of this exact case remain minimal, this action fits into the deeply concerning pattern of this president’s lawless behavior and undermining courts and Congress’s checks on his power,” she said.
So judges are immune from arrest? Evidently that is Baldwin’s view. And whose behavior is “lawless”? Not Dugan’s, apparently.
The more such incidents are reported, the more it appears that the ongoing battle between the administration and Democratic Party judges is a fight over power, not principle.
