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Jim Geraghty: Beware the spin about a judge’s arrest for allegedly helping an illegal immigrant escape
If the events occurred as described in the affidavit of criminal complaint against circuit court judge Hannah Dugan are accurate, then she committed obstruction of justice and concealing an individual to prevent his discovery and arrest, and it’s extremely difficult to envision an alternate interpretation of the known facts that would exculpate Judge Dugan.

Jeffrey Mandell and Norman Eisen: Wisconsin has a history of fighting injustice. Judge Dugan is the latest example.
Like the effort to return Joshua Glover to slavery, this is a bad case, built on bad law, pursued for bad reasons.

Mark Belling: Feds: We have a warrant. Milwaukee judge: So what?
What makes Dugan’s action especially revolting is that she is a judge. ICE and the FBI had a warrant. How can a judge defy a warrant? What does Dugan do when somebody defies one of her judicial warrants?

Lucy Ripp: The cost of Trump’s first 100 days
From reckless tariffs that are raising our cost of living and hurting local farmers to ripping jobs away from thousands of Wisconsin workers and cutting off funding that ensures kids have food to eat and families have health care — in its first 100 days, the Trump regime wasted no time causing real harm to Wisconsin families and communities.

Dave Zweifel: GOP pulling nation back to era of ‘separate and unequal’
The problem with the Trump administration’s anti-DEI crusade is that it doesn’t distinguish between what works and what doesn’t.

David Blaska: America needs friends, even if they are Canadian
Friends come and go; enemies accumulate. Lyin’ Ted may have needed to kowtow, Canadians don’t and won’t.

Gregory Humphrey: Trump’s tariffs vs. Chinese who ‘patiently take the long view against impatient interlocutors’
Over the past weeks, the bluster and shoot-from-the-hip mentality of Trump, along with the haphazard moves regarding tariffs, has further informed China that they can outmaneuver this White House.

Steven Walters: New Capitol models of lawmaking evolve
Republicans put four constitutional changes before voters last year, passing two of them.

Ron Malzer: Brad Schimel didn’t stand a chance
In the case of the People of Wisconsin versus Elon Musk, Susan Crawford got to write the opinion for the majority in Wisconsin. And it was Justice Marshall, in absentia, concurring.

Bruce Murphy: The patriotism of Hannah Dugan
Milwaukee judge who loves the U.S. Constitution and history has fueled a national controversy.

David Blaska: Democrats are stuck on fly paper
No one is above the law — except progressive judges.

Luanna H. Meyer: Cutting Medicaid wouldn’t make America great again. It would make America cruel.
Cuts to Medicaid means denying millions of Americans access to desperately-needed supports and the right to live with dignity.

Rich Eng and Lena Eng: We’re Republican and Christian. Trump is wrong to order these refugees to leave.
President Trump’s administration revoked the legal status of Christians who face death if forced to return to Taliban-led Afghanistan.

Steven Elbow: Attack on democracy not as bad as you think — it’s far worse
Trump is establishing an authoritarian regime with blinding speed, and riding it out until the midterms so his power can be checked is the worst of all possible options.

John Nichols: At the 100-day mark, support for Trump is collapsing
After two and a half months of chaos stemming from everything from tariffs to threats to civil liberties to the destruction of Medicaid, there is nothing subtle about the overwhelming rejection of the man and his policies.

Richard Kyte: Democracy relies upon a self-imposed rule of law
America is facing a constitutional crisis not just because the president is defying the courts. We are facing a constitutional crisis because Americans don’t know the Constitution.

Bruce Murphy: Hannah Dugan and the battle over ICE
Judge Dugan and Gov. Evers demand due process and are vilified for this.

Deja Vishny and Kristy Parker: As attorneys, we recognized judge’s courthouse arrest was not standard practice
We must remain on high alert to prevent further slide into authoritarianism.

Gregory Humphrey: Attack on Milwaukee judge is ‘whole new descent into government chaos’
When it comes to arresting a judge and threatening a prison sentence for ensuring due process is carried out in a courthouse, well, that is a step that no American can allow Trump to ignore.

Richard Moore: Universal school choice is our only choice now
With universal school choice, there would be government schools, parochial schools, special needs schools, secular schools, neighborhood-founded and run schools, but all those who participate in the universal choice program would be public schools.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ consider voter reaction to Trump’s felony conviction in hush money trial
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider voter reaction to former President Trump’s felony conviction for falsifying business records in hush money scheme. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for June 7
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss felony charges against the warden and eight others in Waupun prison deaths, calls to reform Milwaukee Public Schools, UW Regent Bob Atwell’s resignation, campaign registration papers filed in legislative races, this weekend’s Dem state convention and more.