A week after calling for a “civic uprising,” New York Times columnist and PBS nominal conservative David Brooks found his first heroine in arrested Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan, who is alleged to have used her courtroom to help an illegal immigrant, who was in front of her for domestic abuse, escape arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. On Friday’s PBS News Hour, Brooks argued if the charges are true, then while Dugan’s actions were “illegal,” they were also a “heroic” form of “civil disobedience.”
Host Amna Nawaz did not mention the domestic abuse charges when she asked Brooks, “But what does this say to you now in terms of what the administration is willing to do and how this was carried out?”
Brooks began, “Well, obviously, they’re trying to send a note of intimidation, not only to her, but to all judges and…
