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Today, Senator Dianne Hesselbein (D-Middleton), the Senate Minority Leader and Senator Dora Drake (D-Milwaukee), the Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety and the Senate Democratic Caucus Vice Chair, released the following statement regarding the arrest of a Milwaukee County Judge:
“Today’s arrest of a sitting judge, at the Milwaukee County Courthouse, is a frightening escalation of the Trump Administration’s attacks on America’s judicial system. This is part of a pattern by this Administration – defying court orders, flouting the democratic system of checks and balances, ignoring the right to due process, and threatening judicial independence – that alarms us as legislators and as residents of this great state and this great country. We will follow this case closely. We will continue to stand up to lawless and unconstitutional actions. And, we will always fight for a bedrock principle of American democracy: equal justice under the law.”
