Can't understand why there wasn't more pushback against the Trump government in this case by the locals who had been impaneled.
Maybe because prejudiced and possibly prejudiced potential jurors get dismissed? Is
Frasier Balzov too stoooooopid to know this?
Judge Dugan righteously stood for a principle I can wholeheartedly agree with.
You don't send agents to ambush people who are complying with their legal and civic duty to show up to court.
In real life, Federal law enforcement people can, legally, make arrests in the hallways of state-level courts. That was made clear in testimony in this trial. The reason Federal law enforcement people do this is for safety - of their team, of the arrestee(s), and bystanders - because they know court facilities screen entrants for weapons.
Even if the judge in the case imposes a de minimis sentence, Hannah Dugan will be disbarred because of her felony conviction.
My wish is that she also spends time modelling orange jumpsuits, but disbarment was definitely earned. This case should open up the Pandora's box of learning in how many other cases did Judge Dugan in some way obstruct enforcement of state or Federal laws.
orangecrush (28,027 posts)
7. So they'e begun jailing judges.
Yes. As Assistant U.S. Attorney Kelly Brown Watzka pointed out to the jury, judges are not above the law. Dugan did the crime and Dugan should do the time, the maximum allowable, IMO, given her abuse of process and authority.
