Winning by keeping law enforcement at bay- Steve Kravit on Hannah Dugan's prosecution

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Courthouses are for litigating cases, and not for being targets for law enforcement arrests. Fairfax criminal lawyer Jonathan Katz strongly dissents from the Trump administration's revoking of the Biden administration's policy of rarely making immigration arrests at courthouses other than for essentially exigent circumstances. Even the most law and order people can understand the importance of such a Biden administration policy, lest undocumented people (and, in this climate, even non-United States citizens with visas who may feel at risk of deportation efforts for exercising their First Amendment rights to express views contrary to the executive branch's foreign policy) stay away from courthouses when criminal defendants, civil litigants, and subpoenaed witnesses Political conservatives might agree that Constitutional separation of powers and federalism also favor the Biden administration's policy on courthouse immigration arrests. "Nobody is above the law" oversimplifies this entire matter, as covered by this podcast episode, with Milwaukee lawyer Stephen Kravit as our guest, to explain the realities -- and of course the outrage he shares with Jon Katz -- over the below-detailed incident involving Judge Hannah Dugan, and how to make systemic courthouse changes to avoid repeats of such incidents. Steve has written here (and continued here) on this matter.

A few weeks ago, with loud fanfare from federal attorney general Pam Bondi, federal authorities arrested Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan at her own courthouse, leaving her unable to even handle her day's docket, and when she easily could have been summoned to court instead of arrested, after being charged federally for concealment and obstruction of justice after standing up to federal law enforcement personnel present with an immigration administrative arrest warrant (meaning not issued by a judge) for a defendant in her courtroom, and arranging for him and his lawyer to exit her courtroom from a side door, which went into the same public hallway as her courtroom's main entrance.

Underlining how this not a partisan political matter to stand up against this prosecution, two of Judge Dugan's lawyers are Republicans.

Steve and Jon also discuss how to beating the prosecution, together with his aggravated litigation approach.

For more reading on efforts to protect separation of powers and federalism in courthouses, beneficial reading includes a Colorado judge's recent order for no civil immigration enforcement at the courthouse, the

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