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One charming media practice of our age is the presentation of anti-Trump lawyers as sage arbiters of controversial cases related to administration policy. It’s a nice gig because even if the legal analysis is off target, a suitably strident condemnation of the president will leave editors and producers wanting more. The latest example involves the case of Hannah Dugan, a circuit judge in Wisconsin’s Milwaukee County who was hailed in media circles as a champion of the rule of law but is now officially a felon. On Wednesday this column noted the compelling evidence offered at this week’s trial that Dugan took outrageous actions in trying to thwart federal officers who were enforcing immigration law. On Thursday Dugan was found guilty of obstructing law enforcement by a jury of her peers in Milwaukee. This must come as quite a shock to many news consumers who had been assured of her acquittal by a media jury of friendly pundits. Dugan was widely portrayed as a victim of alleged Trumpian abuse by attorneys who should have known better. Isaac Schorr writes at MediaIte: Another day means another embarrassing whiff for the insular, professionally wrong liberal legal commentariat. Mr. Schorr notes that after Dugan’s April arrest, a former U.S. Attorney from the Obama administration, Joyce Vance, rolled out the Hitler analogies and warned, “they are coming for the judges.”
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