Overview

• Dugan’s attorneys filed a motion to dismiss federal counts of concealing a person from arrest and obstruction of justice by asserting she acted within her judicial duties when she directed ICE agents away and allowed Eduardo Flores-Ruiz to exit her courtroom.
• The brief contends that prosecuting these actions infringes on the separation of powers and violates the Constitution’s Tenth Amendment.
• Defense lawyers invoke the Supreme Court’s 2024 Trump v. United States ruling on presumptive immunity for official acts and long-standing judicial immunity precedent.
• Surveillance footage released by Milwaukee County shows Dugan interacting with ICE agents and guiding them to the chief judge’s office while Flores-Ruiz and his attorney exited through a back door.
• The court set June 9 for government responses, a July 9 pretrial conference and a July 21 trial date, and Dugan, suspended by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, faces up to six years in prison and $350,000 in fines if convicted.