More than 130 former state and federal judges penetrate the government against her charges against Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan, her indictment of a “gross over-range” by calling the executive power.
The judge in Wisconsin was charged in April after being accused of helping a migrant without papers to arise last month at her courthouse. It is confronted with federal accusations of hindering or hindering a procedure and hiding a person to prevent his discovery and arrest – charges that have a maximum fine of six years in prison and a fine of $ 350,000. She has not guilty.
A group of 138 former judges submitted an amicus assignment on Friday and urged the government to reject the charges and to warn that the indictment of Dugan is in danger of undermining for centuries of precedent in the field of judicial immunity, crucial for an effective judiciary. “
The case “represents an extraordinary and direct attack on the independence of the entire judicial system,” the former judges wrote. “Allowing the prosecution of a judge of a state circuit for behavior that falls square within its lawful exercise of judicial discretion is a dangerous precedent that will cool off judicial decision -making at every level.”
The group argued that “if judge is entitled to absolute immunity for its official acts; this bar about prosecution is the same absolute immunity given to members of the legislative and executive branches for their actions taken in official capacity.”
Dozens of former state and federal judges urge the government to drop the charges against Hannah Dugan, a judge of the Milwaukee County Court, in a new application (AP), in a new application (AP)
Dugan's lawyers argued in the same way when they submitted a motion to reject the case this month. Her cited lawyers Trump v. United States, The ruling of the Supreme Court that determined presidents were immune for criminal prosecution for official acts. “Judges are entitled to absolute immunity for their judicial acts, without taking into account the motive with which those actions are reportedly performed,” her lawyers argued.
Judges can make mistakes, the group acknowledged, but those mistakes are restored to the judicial branch. “If judges reportedly got something wrong or the authority has exclusively abused the judiciary, this is exclusively on the judiciaryNo prosecutors, to investigate the alleged error through the professional process or judicial misconduct procedures, “they wrote.
The 138 retired judges also shot the indictment as a “gross scope by the executive power threatens the public trust in the judicial system and the ability of the public to make use of court buildings without fear of retaliation.”
After her first performance in the court on April 25, she was released from detention. The State Supreme Court, however, suspended her from the bank days later. “It is in the public interest that she is temporarily relieved of her official tasks,” wrote the State Supreme Court in an order of April 29.
The Amicus letter from Friday came for weeks after 150 former judges wrote a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi after the arrest of Dugan. They closed Bondi for calling judges 'disturbed' on April 25, the day of the Dugan arrest. That same day, FBI director Kash Patel posted a photo of the judge in handcuffs on his official social media account, in which he wrote: “No one is above the law.”
The Trump government has repeatedly attacked judges, with the president himself even calling for one being deposited in a post on social media. The function led Chief Justice John Roberts to make a rare statement: “It has been established for more than two centuries that accusation is not an appropriate answer to disagreements with regard to a judicial decision. The normal professional assessment for professional assessment exists for that purpose.”
