A longtime personality on Fox News is coming under fire after rebuking Trump officials for arresting a Wisconsin judge charged with aiding an illegal immigrant criminal in his attempt to escape from apprehension outside a courthouse last week.
Former judge Andrew Napolitano said authorities with the FBI overreached when they arrested Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan for allegedly obstructing a federal investigation by directing an illegal immigrant out of her courtroom and through a private area where he exited the building. FBI agents waiting for the individual to appear in a public hallway instead had to follow him down the street in a short foot chase before arresting him.
The arrest of Dugan has been promoted by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel, who posted on social media the following day a picture of Dugan in handcuffs with the caption, “No one is above the law.”
To Napolitano, who served in the New Jersey Superior Court system for nearly a decade, Patel needs to produce “proof” that Dugan’s aim was to help the illegal immigrant escape.
“I think they overreached by arresting her. If there’s an issue in a white collar case, like with a public