The trial of Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan began this week. Yesterday, the defense was delivered a blow from the testimony of the judge, who Dugan enlisted to confront ICE officers seeking to arrest an illegal alien in the courthouse. Judge Kristela Cervera testified that she was pulled into the dispute by Dugan, who she said admitted that she was trying to help Eduardo Flores-Ruiz as he evaded officers.
Many of us were wondering who the second judge was who appeared in the hallway wearing her robes. It is irregular to see judges outside of their courtrooms wearing their robes.
Cervera said that Dugan specifically told her to keep her robe on and that she was reluctant to do so: “I didn’t want to walk in the hallway with my robe on.” Dugan, however, allegedly wanted the agents to see them in their robes as a sign of authority.
She said that the agent remained respectful but that Dugan was getting upset in the confrontation: “Her irritation seemed to progress to anger. I thought she could have been a little more diplomatic.”
That coincides with the testimony of FBI Special Agent Jeffrey Baker, who stated, “I would say angry is the best way to describe it.”
Likewise, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer Joseph Zuraw stated that Dugan ordered him to “get out” of the public hallway and told him to go to the chief judge’s office. She then allegedly helped the suspect escape through a side door.
Cervera also testified that she was “shocked” by Dugan’s later conduct and that “judges should not be helping defendants evade arrest.” She added, “I was mortified. I thought that someone may think that I was part of some of what happened.”
Cervera said she was shocked by attorneys praising her for helping Flores-Ruiz escape. She described attorneys pumping their fists and telling her, “You go, Judge,” and saying, “Judge, you’re ‘goated’ now.”
She said that she avoided Cervera but ran into her in an elevator. She noted that Cervera told her she was “in the dog house” with the Chief Judge for trying to help Flores-Ruiz.
The testimony supports the allegation that Dugan knowingly sought to help Flores-Ruiz and that her actions were outside her role as a judge in the courthouse.
Dugan is charged with obstruction of a federal agency, a felony, and concealing a wanted person, a misdemeanor. As I discussed in earlier columns, the defense may be hoping for jury nullification in the liberal district. The reaction of lawyers lionizing the judges for facilitating the escape of a suspect may suggest that such a conclusion is possible in this district. The defense may be hoping that at least one juror will discard any testimony and stand with Dugan against ICE and the Trump Administration.
The jury pool can only be viewed as overwhelmingly in favor of Dugan. Kamala Harris won Milwaukee by a margin of 68%-30% over Trump. The chances of getting politically motivated jurors are obviously significant, though that obviously does not mean that jurors cannot be persuaded in the end by the strength of this evidence.
*. Jury nullification is most like a pardon?
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With the roving packs of trolls on this site today, reminder to not feed them. They will become dependent on your data handouts you give them by responding.
Data handouts???
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Your freely given thoughts and emotions, and internet bandwidth (which you pay for) should not be given freely to these trolls, for it is what they feed on.
I scroll the comments here every day, and no 1st-level comment past the first couple hours has anything to do with Dugan or Mar-A-Lago, just obfuscation trying to derail showing the Democrat failures.
So, Do Not Interact, and once the pack of dogs goes hungry long enough, they will eventually leave for easier meals.
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But also, I work/teach IT and try to put things in layman’s analogies. This one wasn’t my best work, I’ll admit.
*. OT. Hochul and NY legislators have reached agreement on assisted suicide. Don’t they already have it? Hire a hitman (Ala mangione) or elect Cuomo as mayor for the elderly covid death camps? Maybe Mandani can make a deal to have NY docs declare all Jewish people have a terminal disease with dementia. Autopen works, too.
Who said murder is wrong?
This is an interesting video that does a reasonable job of explaining how many of us here got to be who we are.
But even if you do not focus on the 60’s generation – watch the video for information on what the impacts of different ways of raising chioldren has on those children.
And think about how those who were sheilded from the experenices those growing up has on those children
BS John Say. If you hear someone say trust me, don’t. 80% of the people from the 60s are kaw abiding people, good doctors, lawyers and merchant chiefs.
Law, not kaw
. School children today have duck and cover and the additional training for what to do during a school shooting, how to dodge fentanyl death using narcan, how to keep your privates intact, what to do during egregious shame from racial slurs and profiling and more.
Walking to school in the 60s, 70s, 80s etc? They LEARNED UTTER SAFETY AND SECURITY, John Say. 😂.
Yep! WGN Bozo’s Circus really screwed Me up. Years and Years of therapy, god know how many prescription bottles full of Lithium and Thorazine I had taken before reaching 14 yrs old. Still cant handle going to a Birthday Party without freaking out over if a Clown was going to show up. Every night I go to sleep I dream I still can’t get the ping-pong ball into bucket No.#6, as Ring Master Ned, Cooky the Clown and Bozo are pointing and laughing their heads off at me – It’s just wrong John Say, make it stop Please!!!
President Donald Trump’s exhibit of previous presidents at the West Wing of the White House now has a new addition — plaques that include negative commentary written in Trump’s voice.
You know each day trump does something really low you wonder is this the end? How dispicable can this guy get?
Each day a new low on how terrible a human being can actually be.
The guy isn’t even truthful in his insults
The plaque for Biden (which is under not a portrait of Biden but a photo of the presidential autopen) used Trump’s denigrating moniker “Sleepy Joe Biden” and called him “the worst President in American History” who won the “most corrupt Election ever seen in the United States.” The plaque further alleges that Biden “caused the highest Inflation ever recorded.”
“…highest inflation ever recorded”? WTF. trump is truly an idiot.
Something much more interesting, Fani Gets Frothy In Epic Meltdown Over Payments To Lover
Fani Willis loses her damn mind when presented with documents showing how much money her office paid her lover Nathan Wade during the witch hunt against President Trump:
“Why don’t you investigate how many times they called me the n word?” pic.twitter.com/luC6E5rORM
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 17, 2025
Didn’t Dennis brag about how Fani was going to spank Trump’s fanny and have him in a orange jumpsuit before the summer was over? Where is Trump now? Oh, that is right. Back in the Oval Office.
Imagine if she had steered a $2 Billion dollar bribe to a family member, like Trump did.
Note that the problem was “the appearance of impropriety” and not that there was evidence of any.
Having previously worked for Willis, McAffee should have recused himself to avoid the appearance of impropriety.
“Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee did not find that Willis’ relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade amounted to a conflict of interest that should force her off the most sprawling of the four criminal cases against the former president.”
What is odd is that both Willis and Wade are on the same side of the prosecution, but then McAfee expressed concern about “influence.” Imagine if a prosecutor and the head of the prosecution department discussed how to handle a prosecution, aka, influence.
As usual, the Republicans are concerned when Democrats have relationships, but not when the Republican President pays prostitutes to keep quiet about extra-marital fornication.
Here are some choice quotes describing trump after he did this…
“The funny thing is all the insults and skits and bits will never fill the infinite chasm in Trump’s soul. Twice elected the most powerful person on the planet and yet still the most insecure person in human history.”
“It takes a special kind of thinned-skinned loser to drive stuff like this,”
Awwww poor baby psychotic TDS sufferers lashing out on this comment board. Isn’t that cute.
It’s a terminal case…
Something much more interesting, “The Biden staff, they ruined any type of good library for him,” explained John Morgan, a longtime Democratic donor. “He’ll be lucky to have a bookmobile.”
In reference to the Biden presidential library, as Biden failed to get any new donations in 2024 IRS filings show.
Have you seen the atrocity Obama library, UP?
Trump’s library will be lucky to have a book. The main reason given is that they can either donate to a library or donate to opposition to Trump and see that opposition to Trump is far more important in the next couple of years. Instead of millions going to a box with books in it, it’s going to overturn Trump’s lead in the mid-terms, a worthy cause.