Unusual Justice

Well, former Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge 

Hannah Dugan finally received her sentence from the

Federal Court. To recap, Dugan was found guilty of 

one felony count for obstructing federal immigration

agents. After a jury found her guilty in December 2025,

she resigned from the bench. The charges stemmed 

from an April 2005 incident where the erstwhile judge

had a confrontation with Immigration and Customs

Enforcement (ICE) agents who were waiting to arrest

a defendant outside Dugan's courtroom, then directed 

the individual and his lawyer out of a private exit in

the jury room, a room only jurors, bailiffs, and the judge

are permitted to be in at any and all times in order to 

help the defendant to avoid capture. 

Dugan's defense team attempted to overturn the guilty

verdict by arguing that ICE proceedings are not covered

by the relevant federal obstruction statutes, but U.S. 

District Judge Lynn Adelman, one of the most liberal

federal judges in the country, officially denied the motion.

Under a barrage of threats of impeachment from Republican

legislators, Dugan resigned from the bench on the Milwaukee

County Circuit court in January 2026. Dugan faced a maximum

sentence of five years in prison. However, because she has no 

prior criminal history, her legal team requested a sentence of

time served, as she was already placed in federal custody for 

a brief time. Team Dugan also cited the severe professional and 

personal consequences that Dugan already endured. 

Federal prosecutors have suggested, though, that the legal guide-

lines indicated a prison sentence of 15 to 21 months.

Ah, but lo and behold! The former county judge was 

sentenced to receiving a $5,000 fine, no time behind bars,

and no probation. 

That's it.

That's all. 

Judge Adelman said that despite federal sentencing guidelines

calling for incarceration, "For several reasons, prison is not 

necessary to satisfy the statutory purposes for sentencing,"

making this statement from the bench. But again, let's refer 

to the charges that brought the former Judge Dugan to 

Federal Court. 

The former judge attempted to obstruct a pending proceeding

before the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS),

the defendant being an alien here illegally to begin with, then 

being charged with assault and battery on two people as well.

If this criminal were to have gotten away with fleeing Ice and the 

FBI, who knows what mayhem he may have committed against

innocent law-abiding citizens? Or whatever other crimes against

anyone? 

Judge Dugan was never a supporter of President Trump's immigration

reform, resulting in tighter laws regarding entering our country 

illegally, and she was thought to have acted in the manner which she 

did being out of sorts with Trump's reforms. Thankfully agents were

able to capture and arrest the fleeing thug in front of moving traffic.

At the sentencing hearing, Judge Adelman found that Dugan had

abused her position as an official holding public trust, and that 

the conviction in this case makes the point "affirm(ing) that no one 

is above the law," 

But with the astonishingly light sentence, and the strong likelihood 

of some big-monied lefty or a left-wing political organization coming

forth to pay Dugan's fine, and Dugan not even receiving parole let alone

a prison sentence, how is the conviction, then, being paired with the 

super-light sentence meted out, affirming Judge Adelman's statement?

And here's food for thought: what if the case was about, say, one of 

the participants in the January 6, 2021 ruckus at the Capitol, and the

judge hearing the case did for the defendant(s) what Dugan did for the 

defendant in the case she was going to hear? And the judge brought up 

on the same charges? Would the judge hearing the case sentence the 

other judge be anywhere as lenient in sentencing the J6 defendant(s)?

And the presiding judge was a strong left-winger like Judge Adelman?

The Peasant thinks it would be a different story altogether, wouldn't 

you, my sharp readers? Just wait 'til you get two paragraphs further 

down!

This episode put the law enforcement agents and the public at risk.

Doesn't this merit a stronger sentence for Judge Dugan? 

As it stands, Hannah Dugan can no longer be a judge in any court

because of her record as a convicted felon. But she says that she will

look for a different job in public service. Methinks the ex-judge has

a misbegotten notion of what public service and a public servant is.

A person in that position would not take any action which would place

law enforcement people and the public at large in peril, while making

it all the more difficult for the former to function. 

Finally, there is the ol' Liberal Double Standard: the law is not applied 

equally and fairly to people of certain political persuasions in too many

cases. Here, local conservative talk show host Vicki McKenna said on

her show when the sentence came down that Dugan was given the 

ridiculously light sentence by a judge with a left-bent just like her

because, well, she's a member of The Club, as McKenna terms it. 

The Club is basically the Liberal Establishment, and its members 

look after each other, doing things like running interference for them

and covering for them. And how do they treat conservatives? 

They clobber them! They throw the book at them! They apply

a completely different standard! And if the public is adversely affected,

who cares? They're just a bunch of peasants after all!

Folks, it's time to give Lady Justice back her scales of Justice minus the

imbalancing weight attached to them. And it's long past time we elected

truly impartial judges to helm our courts, as well as government 

officials who will nominate such judges. Let's close The Club for good!

MEM