by Cristina Laila at The Gateway Pundit
A federal judge on Tuesday denied Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan’s motion to dismiss the charges against her for helping an illegal alien evade ICE agents.
Last month a federal magistrate judge said Hannah Dugan is not entitled to dismiss her federal case on a judicial immunity claim.
“Dugan moves to dismiss the indictment under Fed. R. Crim. P. 12(b) on the grounds that she, as a judge, is immune from criminal prosecution for judicial acts, that her prosecution violates the limits of federal power under the Tenth Amendment, and that the indictment could be dismissed under the canon of constitutional avoidance,” magistrate judge Nancy Joseph wrote.
“There is no basis for granting immunity simply because some of the allegations in the indictment describe conduct that could be considered ‘part of the judge’s job,’” the judge wrote in his ruling.
“As the magistrate judge noted, the same is true in the bribery prosecutions, concededly valid, where the judges were prosecuted for performing official acts intertwined with bribery,” the judge wrote according to The Milwaukee Sentinel.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported:…
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