In an act of defiance, Sawyer County, Wisconsin, decide Monica Isham stated she has “no intention” of permitting any unlawful aliens to be taken out of her courtroom, after one other Wisconsin decide was arrested for obstructing an ICE operation.
Decide Isham has been on the bench for lower than two years and boasts of being the “first girl, first Native American, first minority” to function a circuit court docket decide in Sawyer County.
“Sufficient is sufficient. I’ve no intention of permitting anybody to be taken out of my courtroom by ICE and despatched to a focus camp, particularly with out due course of as BOTH of the constitutions we swore to help requires. Ought to I begin elevating bail cash?” Wisconsin Circuit Decide Monica Isham wrote in an e-mail obtained by Wisconsin Right Now.
“If there is no such thing as a steerage for us and no help for us, I’ll refuse to carry court docket in Department 2 in Sawyer County,” she stated.
“We’ve a Judicial District 10 assembly on Could ninth and I respectfully ask that we be given some steerage by then so we might focus on as a bunch in District 10,” the decide stated.
In signing off, Decide Isham proudly stated she is keen to lose her job or get arrested for doing ‘the precise factor.’
“If this prices me my job or will get me arrested, then no less than I do know I did the precise factor,” the decide wrote.
Wisconsin Decide Monica Isham threatens to not maintain court docket over Hannah Dugan’s arrest https://t.co/88OGUlgrW4
— Wisconsin Proper Now (@wisconsin_now) April 26, 2025
As beforehand reported, a Milwaukee County decide was arrested by the FBI for obstructing an ICE arrest final week.
In keeping with the FBI, Decide Hannah Dugan obstructed an immigration arrest operation final week. Dugan turned offended when she discovered that ICE brokers have been ready outdoors of her courtroom final week to arrest Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, an unlawful alien concerned in a home abuse case she was overseeing. She allegedly directed Flores-Ruiz to exit the courthouse via a personal jury door to evade arrest.
FBI Director Kash Patel stated Decide Dugan “deliberately misdirected federal brokers away from the topic to be arrested at her courthouse.”
The surprising legal grievance detailing Decide Hannah Dugan’s actions main as much as her arrest and felony costs was unsealed on Friday. (Learn the full criminal complaint here).
The legal grievance particulars Decide Dugan’s actions to intimidate federal brokers and the way she helped the unlawful alien evade arrest.
In keeping with the legal grievance, six Milwaukee ICE ERO Process Drive officers arrived on the courthouse to effectuate the arrest “in as low-key and secure of a fashion as doable.”
Decide Dugan discovered of ICE’s presence and confronted the arrest staff.
The courtroom deputy stated Decide Dugan was making an attempt to expedite Flores-Ruiz’s listening to so she may rapidly usher him out of the constructing.
It was later revealed that Decide Dugan adjourned Flores-Ruiz’s listening to so she may discreetly escort him via a “jury door” to keep away from his arrest.
The DOJ announced Decide Dugan was charged with “obstruction of proceedings earlier than a division or company of the USA, which carries a most penalty of 5 years in jail, and concealing an individual to forestall arrest, which carries a most penalty of 1 12 months in jail.”
Decide Dugan scurried away after leaving the courthouse on Friday.
WATCH:
New video from our crews: Milwaukee County Decide Hannah Dugan and her lawyer leaving the federal courthouse in Milwaukee and never commenting. The FBI arrested her on the MKE Co Courthouse this morning. She’s charged with 2 felonies for obstructing an ICE arrest final week pic.twitter.com/3YtgsNHTJl
— Matt Smith (@mattsmith_news) April 25, 2025
