Judges are not above the law —even if they’re trying to protect illegal-immigrant thugs

A judge just got nabbed for helping an illegal immigrant facing violent-crime charges evade ICE. 

Yes, you read that right: a judge. 

The very type of person folks count on to uphold the law and deliver impartial verdicts without fear, favor or political bias.

Hannah C. Dugan, of the Milwaukee County Circuit Court, found out that ICE agents were in the courthouse to take Eduardo Flores-Ruiz into custody; after angrily confronting them, she allegedly ushered Flores-Ruiz into a non-public zone where the feds had been told they could not arrest Flores-Ruiz to help him escape capture.

Luckily, Dugan’s shenanigans failed and the border-jumper, who did make it out of the courthouse, was grabbed by the feds as he made a break for it. 

Why was Flores-Ruiz in court? To face charges stemming from his alleged attack on a roommate who asked him to turn down his music and a woman who tried to break up the fight. 

Flores had already been deported once, in 2013, and jumped the border yet again later. 

In other words, he had no right to be here in the first place.

Yet Dugan appears to have been intent on protecting Flores and keeping him here — so intent that she betrayed her office, and her country. 

What drove her? Resistance mania, perhaps: The left continues to object to anything President Donald Trump supports, particularly his deportations of violent illegal immigrants.

Even beyond that, Democrats have a clear record of sticking up for violent criminal illegal immigrants at the expense of law-abiding US citizens. 

That attitude helps explain why a pair of illegal immigrant thugs suspected of running off with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s Gucci bag were roaming US streets — even though one had a notice of “expedited removal” and the other is believed to be “a career criminal who has been in our country illegally for years,” Noem wrote.

The two have allegedly committed similar robberies across the country.

Maybe Dugan sees herself as the hero of some second-rate Lifetime movie running in her head. Now she’s generating cries of support from her comrades across the state, showing that the people who love to scream “No one is above the law” 100% don’t really mean it. 

Yet here’s the problem: If a judge is willing to break the law to advance her political views, imagine how she must be tilting her judicial rulings.

And how much harm her mere arrest has done to public faith in the fairness of the justice system. (Ironically, a local liberal publication once considered Dugan for a “Most Trusted Public Official” award.)

This servant of injustice is now reportedly facing a sentence of up to 10 years behind bars. 

If guilty, she should serve every last day of it. Or Americans will never be able to trust their judicial system again.