One other Milwaukee choose is becoming a member of the rise up after choose Hannah Dugan was arrested by the FBI for obstructing an ICE arrest final week.
The DOJ on Friday announced Choose Dugan was charged with “obstruction of proceedings earlier than a division or company of the USA, which carries a most penalty of 5 years in jail, and concealing an individual to forestall arrest, which carries a most penalty of 1 yr in jail.”
And now a rise up is rising amongst different radical judges in Wisconsin.
As TGP reported earlier, in an act of defiance, Sawyer County, Wisconsin, choose Monica Isham mentioned she has “no intention” of permitting any unlawful aliens to be taken out of her courtroom, after one other Wisconsin choose was arrested for obstructing an ICE operation.
Choose Isham has been on the bench for lower than two years and boasts of being the “first girl, first Native American, first minority” to function a circuit courtroom choose in Sawyer County.
“Sufficient is sufficient. I’ve no intention of permitting anybody to be taken out of my courtroom by ICE and despatched to a focus camp, particularly with out due course of as BOTH of the constitutions we swore to assist requires. Ought to I begin elevating bail cash?” Wisconsin Circuit Choose Monica Isham wrote in an e mail obtained by Wisconsin Right Now.
“If there isn’t any steerage for us and no assist for us, I’ll refuse to carry courtroom in Department 2 in Sawyer County,” she mentioned.
“We’ve got a Judicial District 10 assembly on Could ninth and I respectfully ask that we be given some steerage by then so we might focus on as a bunch in District 10,” the choose mentioned.
In signing off, Choose Isham proudly mentioned she is keen to lose her job or get arrested for doing ‘the appropriate factor.’
“If this prices me my job or will get me arrested, then a minimum of I do know I did the appropriate factor,” the choose wrote.
Wisconsin Choose Monica Isham threatens to not maintain courtroom over Hannah Dugan’s arrest https://t.co/88OGUlgrW4
— Wisconsin Proper Now (@wisconsin_now) April 26, 2025
Milwaukee County Choose Ana Berrios-Schroeder responded to Choose Isham to let her know she helps her.
Choose Berrios-Schroeder thanked Choose Isham for being “courageous” and floated “new courthouse insurance policies” of their quest to defend illegals from ICE brokers.
Wisconsin Proper Now obtained the e-mail from Choose Berrios-Schroeder to Choose Isham.
A Milwaukee Co choose Ana Berrios-Schroeder has responded to Choose Monica Isham’s e mail, which included her risk to not maintain courtroom due to Hannah Dugan’s arrest, thanking her for her “courageous” phrases that “give voice to the unvoiced” and “communicate to our hopes and desires.” Electronic mail… pic.twitter.com/1qdkDxPA5M
— Wisconsin Proper Now (@wisconsin_now) April 27, 2025