Federal grand jury indicts Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan in ICE case

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14. A judge in Massachusetts was charged for the same thing in Trump's first term.

Dugan’s case is similar to one brought during the first Trump administration against District Court Judge Shelley M. Richmond Joseph. She was accused of helping a man sneak out a courthouse back door to evade a waiting immigration enforcement agent. Joseph was charged by former U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling, a Trump appointee, of helping an undocumented immigrant evade federal immigration officials in 2018 while in her Newton court.

Those charges were dropped, and the case was kicked over to the Commission on Judicial Conduct, who issued a stinging summary of the case, and it now falls under the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, which has set it for hearing June 9, 2025. https://www.bostonherald.com/2025/05/13/boston-judge-shelley-josephs-ice-defying-hearing-before-judicial-panel-set-for-june-9/