ABC chief justice correspondent Pierre Thomas reacted to the arrest of Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan on Friday’s World News Tonight by framing it as a “major escalation” from the Trump administration and “extremely rare.”
As it was, Thomas began his report, “Tonight, a sitting state court judge is facing federal charges and possibly years in prison in what critics are saying is a major escalation in the Trump administration’s effort to pressure officials to assist in deportation efforts.”
Thomas eventually got into the specific allegations:
According to a newly unsealed indictment, on April 18, Dugan was visibly upset and had a confrontational, angry demeanor when she and another judge confronted a group of federal agents that had come to her courthouse to arrest Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, an undocumented Mexican citizen,…
