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In an explanation made late Friday in the name of Richter Dugan, it says that she will “defend herself vigorously and look forward to being relieved”. She has commissioned a former public prosecutor to represent her, according to the explanation and “committed to the rule of law and the principles of the proper procedure for her entire career as a lawyer and judge.”

Judge Dugan, who is widely known in progressive circles in Milwaukee, was elected by a big lead in 2016 and defeated an incumbent representative of Scott Walker, the Republican former governor of Wisconsin. Judge Dugan was unhindered for the re -election in 2022. Your current term expires in 2028.

In 2023 she dismissed a lawsuit that was submitted by the Republican party of Wisconsin, which argued that a vocal effort in Milwaukee had violated the law.

The 65 -year -old judge Dugan completed the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1987 and took on a job at Legal Action of Wisconsin, a group that offers free legal services. She worked as a lawyer who specialized in housing construction, public services and social security cases, and, according to her LinkedIn page, was coordinator of the organization from 1990 to 1994.

Later she worked as an executive director for Catholic charity organizations in the southeast of Wisconsin. Judge Dugan was also a member of the Milwaukee County Ethics Board.

As a lawyer for legal assistance, Richter Dugan took over cases in which the needy defended the needy. In 1995 she represented people who dealt with sidewalks in the city center and argued that the ban on doing so was unconstitutional.

In 2000 she argued that an increase in tickets that were written for problems with “quality of life” would have led to intimidation.

“Anecdotically, people don't want to go to court from my customers, let alone in court, because they were particularly intimidated by officials,” she told Milwaukee Journal Sentinel at that time. “We saw an increase in complaints about harassment and abuse.”

Judge Dugan lost a judicial race in 2012. During the campaign, she said she was impartial and, according to Journal Sentinel, would be impartial.

“Justice is hard work. Everyone knows that,” she said.

Julius Kim, a criminal defense lawyer in Milwaukee, who has known judge Dugan for years, said on Friday that she was known to work for people who are “underrepresented in the judicial system”.

“Social justice problems are very important to her,” he said. “But apart from that, I don't think that she is known from any route as a pushy in the courthouse. I think she takes her commitments seriously as a judge.”

In 2021, judge Dugan finalist was in the category “most trustworthy public official” in the Best of Milwaukee competition in the Shepherd Express, an alternative publication.

In an article that she described this year in the history of women in Wisconsin's lawyer profession, judge Dugan noted that a “passion project” of her picture should do outside of every court building in Wisconsin.

Local officials in Milwaukee criticized their arrest.

Mayor Cavalier Johnson from Milwaukee said: “It sends a terrifying effect to other people who take part in our legal proceedings here in Milwaukee.

“If people do not take part in the court proceedings, our community makes it less safe,” he said.

David Crowley, the executive of the Milwaukee district, said in a statement that judge Dugan “entitled to her constitutional law on a proper procedure”.

“However, it is clear that the FBI politicizes this situation to give an example for you and others in the whole country that oppose your attack on the judicial system and the immigration laws of our nation,” he said.

Outside the Federal Court in Milwaukee On Friday afternoon, dozens of people in protest against judge Dugan's arrest gathered. Some called it an attack on the judiciary by the Trump administration and carried signs “hands of our judges”.

“If we don't get up now, we will lose the chance,” said Jenica Wolski, 37, a graphic artist from the nearby Vaum of Wauwatosa. “We slide into authoritarianism so quickly that it is scary.”

Dan Simmons And Robert Chiarito Contribution to Milwaukee's reporting.