Democrats and legacy media outlets warned about the perils of the Trump administration’s arrest of state judges last week for obstructing the arrests of illegal immigrants.
Commentators and politicians cast the arrests of former New Mexico state Judge Joel Cano and Wisconsin state Judge Hannah Dugan as an unprecedented attack on an independent judiciary and a slide into a dictatorship.
Cano resigned his seat but hasn’t admitted any guilt in the federal case. He was charged with allegedly harboring an illegal immigrant in his home. His wife, Nancy Cano, was also charged in the case.
The former judge reportedly wrote to the New Mexico Judicial Standards Commission, “I find these allegations to be highly sensationalized and without merit. … There is no way in the world that I would have allowed my grandkids to have any contact with the boys if I sensed…
