Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan, shown during a candidate forum in 2016. Mike De Sisti/USA Today Network/Imagn Images/Reuters

Judge Hannah Dugan had just arrived for work at Milwaukee County Circuit Court on April 18, when she was informed that federal agents were waiting outside her courtroom. They were there to arrest an undocumented man, Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, who was scheduled to appear before Dugan on a battery charge.

According to federal prosecutors, Dugan stepped out into the hall to question the agents before directing them to the office of the county's chief judge down the hall. Dugan then allegedly sent Flores-Ruiz out a non-public door in an alleged attempt, authorities claim, to help him evade arrest on immigration violations. One officer who had returned to th

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