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The Newest Face of the Resistance? -- WI Judge Monica Isham [1]
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Date: 2025-04-27
In the wake of the FBI arresting Milwaukee-based Judge Hannah Dugan on Friday over allegedly obstructing ICE from detaining an undocumented alien who was in her court earlier this month, fellow WI judge Monica Isham is threatening to close her own court in Sawyer County to protest the Trump administrations unprecedented attack on the judiciary. From the Washington Examiner:
A Wisconsin judge is now threatening not to hold court after the FBI arrested Milwaukee-based Judge Hannah Dugan on Friday on obstruction charges.
Judge Monica Isham of Sawyer County made the stunning claim in an email sent to all state judges on Saturday, Wisconsin Right Now reported. Isham claimed she no longer "feels protected or respected as a Judge" after the arrest of Dugan and will "refuse" to hold court without new "guidance" or "support."
"I no longer feel protected or respected as a Judge in this administration. If there is no guidance for us and no support for us, I will refuse to hold court in Branch 2 in Sawyer County. I will not put myself or my staff who may feel compelled to help me or my community in harms [sic] way,” she wrote.
Isham added that she has "no intention of allowing anyone to be taken out of my courtroom by ICE and sent to a concentration camp, especially without due process, as BOTH of the constitutions we swore to support requires," even threatening to "start raising bail money" for defendants.
Isham's email follows the arrest of Dugan after she allegedly misdirected Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in mid-April to help an illegal immigrant evade arrest.
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