Democratic Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers announced on Thursday that he will not seek a third term leading the Badger State.
Evers, 73, <a href="https://x.com/GovEvers/status/1948428228965613931">said</a> he wants to spend more time with his family after a five-decade career in politics.
&#8220;For five decades, my family has sacrificed to give me the gift of service. They’re my world, and I owe it to them to focus on doing all the things we enjoy and love doing together. It’s why, Wisconsin, I’m announcing that I will not be running for a third term,&#8221; Evers said. &#8220;I&#8217;m so humbled to be your governor. This is the best job I ever had.&#8221;
Evers predicted he would have won had he chosen to run again. His current term ends on January 4, 2027. Wisconsin will have an open gubernatorial race in 2026.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
A love letter from me to Kathy and my family—and to you, Wisconsin. <a href="https://t.co/VDcztZ6JPy">pic.twitter.com/VDcztZ6JPy</a>
— Governor Tony Evers (@GovEvers) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovEvers/status/1948428228965613931?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
&#8220;I&#8217;m a science teacher at heart who ending up running for office and winning five straight statewide elections. So would I win if I ran a sixth time? Of course,&#8221; Evers said. &#8220;No question about that. But whether I&#8217;d win or not has never been part of my calculus about running again.&#8221;
Wisconsin was a swing state in the 2024 presidential election. President Donald Trump <a href="https://apnews.com/projects/election-results-2024/wisconsin/?r=0">won</a> the state by about 30,000 votes. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) <a href="https://apnews.com/projects/election-results-2024/wisconsin/?r=50807">won</a> her re-election bid against Republican challenger Eric Hovde by a similar margin.
Multiple Democrats are considering running to replace Evers, NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/wisconsin-gov-tony-evers-wont-run-re-election-rcna220797">reported</a>, including Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez, Attorney General Josh Kaul, Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley, and Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson.
Two Republican candidates have entered the race so far, the outlet said. Washington County Executive Joe Schoemann and manufacturing CEO Bill Berrien have launched campaigns. Hovde is considering running, as are U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany and businessman Tim Michels, who lost to Evers in 2022.
Berrien <a href="https://www.wispolitics.com/2025/berrien-campaign-responds-to-evers-retirement-announcement/">released</a> a statement responding to Evers&#8217; announcement, saying the governor is afraid of losing.
“Tony Evers is too scared to run on the Madison Democrats’ record of failure,&#8221; Berrien said. &#8220;I’m going to spend the next 15 months making sure whoever the Madison liberals pick from their bench of radical career politicians learns the same lesson.”
Republicans criticized Evers in 2023, when the governor vetoed a bill that would have protected children from irreversible transgender surgeries and hormone procedures, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wisconsin-governor-vetoes-bill-that-would-have-banned-trans-surgeries-on-children?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Wisconsin+Governor+Vetoes+Bill+That+Would+Have+Banned+Trans+Surgeries+On+Children">reported</a> at the time. The bill had passed the Republican-controlled state legislature.
“While the governor’s veto of this legislation is certainly not surprising, it serves as a stark reminder of just how out of touch with reality Governor Evers is,” former Republican state Sen. Duey Stroebel <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/democratic-wisconsin-governor-vetoes-bill-to-ban-gender-affirming-care-for-kids/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at the time. “Protecting children from invasive and irreversible medical interventions is the right thing to do from both a scientific and ethical standpoint.”
In his veto message, Evers emphasized his commitment to LGBT causes, saying the bill would have made Wisconsin less safe.
“This type of legislation, and the rhetoric beget by pursuing it, harms LGBTQ people and kids’ mental health, emboldens anti-LGBTQ hate and violence, and threatens the safety and dignity of LGBTQ Wisconsinites,” Evers said. “I will veto any bill that makes Wisconsin a less safe, less inclusive, and less welcoming place for LGBTQ people and kids.”
The governor has also blocked conservative-backed bills on voting, abortion, and gun rights.

Tim Walz Campaigns In Wisconsin With Governors Evers And Whitmer

Woke Wisconsin Governor Won’t Seek Re-Election, Opening Door For GOP

Elections

Politics

Tony Evers

Wisconsin

The liberal majority of the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled 4-3 to strike down a 176-year-old law that made it a crime for anyone other than the mother to intentionally end the life of an unborn child. 
The ruling means that abortions remain legal in Wisconsin up to around 20 weeks after fertilization and keeps in place a December 2023 decision from a lower court judge that said the abortion ban was not in effect.
The 1849 law, which had been blocked in 1973 by Roe v. Wade, was re-litigated after the Supreme Court ruled in June 2022 that there is no constitutional right to an abortion. The four liberal justices on the court said the Wisconsin legislature had effectively repealed the 1849 law by passing subsequent pro-life laws in the years after Roe. 
<a class="c-link c-link--focus-visible" href="https://get.dailywire.com/freedom/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=freedom&amp;utm_content=freedomeditorial&amp;_gl=1*r8odly*_gcl_au*MTQ5MDUzNjQ0NC4xNzQ1ODQ0MzMyLjEwNDAyMzM0NDQuMTc0NzY1MzIxNy4xNzQ3NjUzMjE3*_ga*MTM1OTk4Njg2NS4xNzA2NzE2NTAy*_ga_CZKR9ZYKJP*czE3NTEyOTIzMDQkbzMyJGcxJHQxNzUxMjkyOTI5JGo1NyRsMCRoMA.." target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-stringify-link="https://get.dailywire.com/freedom/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=freedom&amp;utm_content=freedomeditorial" data-sk="tooltip_parent" aria-describedby="sk-tooltip-75638">JULY 4 SALE: Get Six Months Of DW+ Free</a>
“We conclude that, under the unique circumstances presented here, the legislature impliedly repealed [the 1849 law] as to abortion by enacting comprehensive legislation about virtually every aspect of abortion including where, when, and how healthcare providers may lawfully perform abortions,” Justice Rebecca Dallet wrote in the majority <a href="https://www.wicourts.gov/sc/opinion/DisplayDocument.pdf?content=pdf&amp;seqNo=979066">opinion</a>. “That comprehensive legislation so thoroughly covers the entire subject of abortion that it was clearly meant as a substitute for the 19th century near-total ban on abortion.”
In a dissent, conservative Justice Annette Ziegler argued that the liberal majority had disregarded the law through a “novel” approach and failed to identify a specific statute that repealed the 1849 law. 
“The majority opinion is a jaw-dropping exercise of judicial will, placing personal preference over the constitutional roles of the three branches of our state government and upending a duly enacted law,” she wrote. “In this dangerous departure from our constitutional design, four members of the court make up and apply their own version of implied repeal, failing to hew to any semblance of traditional judicial decision-making or jurisprudence.”
Ziegler added that the majority arbitrarily chose which abortion laws to remain in effect. 
Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul sued several Wisconsin district attorneys over the 1849 law, arguing that the legislature implicitly repealed it. Sheboygan County District Attorney Joel Urmanski defended the law in court, arguing that later pro-life laws passed did not supersede the original 1849 law. 
“The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s role is to follow the Constitution, not to make law,” Wisconsin GOP chair Brian Schimming said in response to the court’s decision. “This issue should be resolved in the legislature and by voters, not by far-left justices parading as legislators.”
Liberals have held a firm grip on the court for the last two years, easily winning judicial races in both 2023 and 2025, which has kept the court’s ideological slant leaning to the Left. The court last week refused to hear challenges to Wisconsin’s current congressional map, after Democrats argued that the boundaries illegally favor Republicans, leaving the current map in place for the 2026 midterm elections.

Milwaukee Prepares For The Republican National Convention

Liberal Majority On Swing State’s Supreme Court Strikes Down Abortion Ban

Abortion

Courts

Pro-Life Movement

U.S.

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of a Catholic charity that sued Wisconsin after it was mandated to pay certain unemployment taxes while other religious organizations were exempted.
In its <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24-154_2b82.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruling</a>, the court struck down a decision from the Wisconsin Supreme Court that said the Catholic Charities Bureau had to pay taxes on unemployment compensation. The court said that the interpretation of state tax law by Wisconsin&#8217;s Supreme Court violated the First Amendment.
&#8220;The First Amendment mandates government neutrality between religions and subjects any state-sponsored denominational preference to strict scrutiny,&#8221; Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in the majority decision. &#8220;The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s application of [Wisconsin law] imposed a denominational preference by differentiating between religions based on theological lines.&#8221;
Catholic Charities Bureau is an organization that provides services to poor people, the disabled, the elderly, and children with special needs as a ministry of the Catholic Church in the Diocese of Superior. According to its <a href="https://ccbsuperior.org/about-us/">website</a>, it provides around 50 programs to over 10,500 people.
Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a concurring opinion, saying that in addition to violating the First Amendment, the Wisconsin Supreme Court violated the church autonomy doctrine, which means that a religious institution is not defined by any corporate entity it may form.
&#8220;I would reverse for an additional reason — that the Wisconsin Supreme Court violated the church autonomy doctrine,&#8221; Thomas wrote. &#8220;However incorporated, Catholic Charities and its subentities are, from a religious perspective, a mere arm of the Diocese of Superior. The Wisconsin Supreme Court should have deferred to that understanding, and its failure to do so amounted to an unlawful attempt by the State to redefine the Diocese’s internal governance.&#8221;
<a href="https://get.dailywire.com/gift/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=wisepops&amp;utm_campaign=dad&amp;utm_content=fathersdaygiftpopups" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gift Dad an All Access Membership. Use code DAD40 at checkout to save 40%!</a>
Thomas noted that the government could not use entities created by religious institutions as a backdoor means to regulate their internal governance.
&#8220;In short, the corporation is made for the church, not the church for the corporation. Both the basic principles of church autonomy and the history of religious corporations establish that religious institutions are more than the corporate entities that they form,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;It follows that the government may not use such entities as a means of regulating the internal governance of religious institutions.&#8221;
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson also issued a separate concurring opinion.

DOGE-FED-BUILDINGS

Supreme Court Sides With Christian Charity Targeted By Wisconsin

Catholic Church

Clarence Thomas

First Amendment

Religious Liberty

Sonia Sotomayor

Supreme Court

Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan is claiming “judicial immunity” after officials accused her of helping an illegal alien evade immigration enforcement.
A federal grand jury indicted Dugan earlier this week on charges of concealing a person from arrest and obstruction of proceedings. Dugan allegedly attempted to aid Mexican national Eduardo Flores-Ruiz escape Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials who waited outside Dugan’s courtroom last month.
“The problems with this prosecution are legion, but most immediately, the government cannot prosecute Judge Dugan because she is entitled to judicial immunity for her official acts. Immunity is not a defense to the prosecution to be determined later by a jury or court; it is an absolute bar to the prosecution at the outset,” a Wednesday filing from Dugan’s attorneys says, according to the <a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2025/05/14/hannah-dugan-moves-to-dismiss-obstruction-case-on-judicial-immunity/83624812007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Milwaukee Journal Sentinel</a>.
Dugan’s attorneys said the charges, brought by the Department of Justice, violate the U.S. Constitution’s 10th Amendment about powers reserved to the states.
“[T]he immunity and federalism issues must be resolved swiftly because the government has no basis in law to prosecute her. The prosecution against her is barred. The Court should dismiss the indictment,” the filing states. “Since at least the early 17th century in England, and carried on through common law in the United States, judges of record have been entitled to absolute immunity for official acts with a few exceptions not applicable here.”
Administration officials have said that the case against Dugan shows that all are equal under the law.
Last month, law enforcement officials <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-slapped-with-federal-charges-for-helping-criminal-illegal-flee-feds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gathered</a> outside of Dugan’s courtroom waiting for Flores-Ruiz to exit. Dugan angrily confronted officials before directing Flores-Ruiz toward a side exit instead of the public door in an attempt to bypass law enforcement, according to the complaint against her.
“Despite having been advised of the administrative warrant for the arrest of Flores-Ruiz, Judge Dugan then escorted Flores-Ruiz and his counsel out of the courtroom through the ‘jury door,’ which leads to a nonpublic area of the courthouse,” the complaint against Dugan says.
“Shame on her,” Attorney General Pam Bondi <a href="https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1915826498533310904" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> last month. “It was a domestic violence case, of all cases, and she was protecting a criminal defendant over victims of crime.”

Milwaukee County Courthouse

Wisconsin Judge Accused Of Helping Illegal Evade Feds Claims ‘Judicial Immunity’

Department of Justice

Illegal Immigation

A federal grand jury indicted a Wisconsin judge on Tuesday for allegedly aiding an illegal immigrant in an attempt to avoid law enforcement.
Authorities arrested Judge Hannah Dugan of the Milwaukee County Circuit Court last month after officials say she tried to help an illegal immigrant evade immigration authorities. Dugan’s indictment charged her with concealing a person from arrest and obstruction of proceedings.
“Judge Hannah C. Dugan has committed herself to the rule of law and the principles of due process for her entire career as a lawyer and a judge,” her lawyers said in a statement, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/us/milwaukee-judge-hannah-dugan-immigration.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>. “Judge Dugan asserts her innocence and looks forward to being vindicated in court.”
Dugan’s legal team is expected to enter a plea on Thursday, according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/05/13/us-news/wisconsin-judge-hannah-dugan-indicted-over-allegedly-helping-illegal-migrant-evade-ice/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a>. The Wisconsin Supreme Court has suspended Dugan from the bench while her case progresses.
Dugan allegedly aided Mexican national Eduardo Flores-Ruiz in his attempts to evade federal authorities.
Law enforcement officials gathered in a hallway outside of Dugan’s courtroom last month waiting for Flores-Ruiz to exit. Dugan confronted the officials while she was “visibly upset and had a confrontational, angry demeanor,” according to the criminal complaint. The judge then led Flores-Ruiz out a different exit from her courtroom instead of the public exit in an attempt to evade law enforcement.
“Despite having been advised of the administrative warrant for the arrest of Flores-Ruiz, Judge Dugan then escorted Flores-Ruiz and his counsel out of the courtroom through the ‘jury door,’ which leads to a nonpublic area of the courthouse,” the indictment says.
The Trump administration has defended Dugan’s arrest as an example of an equal standard of law for all.
“Shame on her,” Attorney General Pam Bondi <a href="https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1915826498533310904" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> last month. “It was a domestic violence case, of all cases, and she was protecting a criminal defendant over victims of crime.”

Judge Slapped With Charges For Helping Illegal Evade Feds

Illegal Immigration

Milwaukee

Authorities have charged the father of the 15-year-old shooter who killed two people and injured six others at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, in December, police said on Thursday.
Jeffrey Rupnow, 42, is accused of giving his daughter access to the pistols that she used in her attack, ABC News <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/father-15-year-killed-2-wisconsin-religious-school-121611692" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The teenage female shooter, who just four months prior had started attending Abundant Life, opened fire in a study hall on December 16, killing teacher Erin Michelle West and 14-year-old student Rubi Bergara. The shooter, who will not be named per Daily Wire policy, then turned the gun on herself and was found dead by responding officers.
Rupnow faces two counts of intentionally giving a dangerous weapon to a person under 18, causing death, and contributing to the delinquency of a child, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/05/09/us-news/father-of-15-year-old-wisconsin-school-shooter-natalie-rupnow-faces-felony-charges/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=nypost" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. He is scheduled to make his first court appearance on Friday.
The criminal complaint against Rupnow says that his daughter spiraled after her parents divorced, expressing a hatred of humanity, according to ABC News. Court records showed that the shooter was in therapy over her troubled home life and would often bounce back and forth between her mother and father. Her parents divorced in 2014, remarried in 2017, divorced again in 2020, and then remarried for a second time, The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/12/17/madison-wisconsin-school-shooter-natalie-rupnow/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. By April 2021, the couple petitioned for a third divorce and were “admonished” by a judge “concerning remarriage.”
The criminal complaint states that Rupnow attempted to bond with his daughter through firearms. According to the complaint, Rupnow bought his daughter a 9mm pistol and a .22-caliber Sig Sauer pistol. Rupnow allegedly bought the Sig Sauer pistol for Christmas in 2023, when she would have been just 14 years old.
The father told investigators that following the divorce, his daughter started cutting herself so badly that he had to lock up all the knives in his home. After taking her shooting with him on a friend&#8217;s property to connect with her, Rupnow told investigators he was stunned at how quickly her interest in guns &#8220;snow balled.&#8221;
Rupnow kept the guns he got for his daughter in a gun safe, but gave her the combination to open it. Just ten days before the deadly attack on the Christian school, Rupnow texted a friend that his daughter would shoot him if he left “the fun safe open right now,&#8221; according to the complaint. The father expressed regret to investigators about teaching his daughter about firearms and urged police to encourage people to change the combination on their gun safes frequently.
Investigators discovered a six-page manifesto in the shooter&#8217;s bedroom in her father&#8217;s house, along with maps of the school and a schedule of how she would carry out the attack. In her manifesto, which was titled &#8220;War Against Humanity,&#8221; the shooter wrote that she hated people who don&#8217;t care and &#8220;smoke their lungs out with weed or drink as much as they can like my own father,&#8221; ABC News reported.
The felony charges against Rupnow continue a new practice of prosecutors going after the parents of mass shooters. Last year, both parents of the Oxford, Michigan, high school shooter were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/parents-of-michigan-school-shooter-sentenced" target="_blank" rel="noopener">convicted</a> of involuntary manslaughter, becoming the first parents convicted of crimes connected to their child carrying out a mass shooting. The father of a 14-year-old boy who opened fire and killed four people at a high school in Georgia last year also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/father-of-suspected-georgia-school-shooter-charged-with-murder" target="_blank" rel="noopener">faces</a> second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter charges.

Abundant Life Christian School

Father Of 15-Year-Old Wisconsin Christian School Shooter Hit With Felony Charges

Christian

Crime

Mass Shooting

School Shooting

Shooting

A leftist legal group challenged Wisconsin&#8217;s congressional maps at the state&#8217;s Supreme Court on Wednesday, just one month after a &#8220;dangerously liberal&#8221; judge was elected to the high court.
The maps were challenged by the Elias Law Group on behalf of nine Wisconsin voters. The suit claims that the maps are designed to disenfranchise Democratic voters.
<div class="page" title="Page 4">
<div class="section">
<div class="layoutArea">
<div class="column">
&#8220;Wisconsin’s congressional map is antithetical to virtually every principle necessary to sustain a representative democracy,&#8221; the <a href="https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/thecentersquare.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/5/77/57737345-6a62-430d-b8d8-7eff5f356728/681ceadb4a7de.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suit</a> alleges. &#8220;It impermissibly disadvantages voters based on their political views and partisan affiliation, systematically disfavoring Democrats because they are Democrats.&#8221;
The suit asks the court to issue a &#8220;lawful&#8221; map to replace the current map. Wisconsin currently has eight congressional seats, made up of six Republicans and two Democrats. The Elias Law Group was founded by Marc Elias, a Democrat super lawyer who has a history of challenging election integrity laws.
<div class="page" title="Page 7">
<div class="section">
<div class="layoutArea">
<div class="column">
&#8220;This congressional map directly discriminates against Petitioners, who support Democratic candidates in Wisconsin and—because of that affiliation—are effectively silenced and shut out from casting a meaningful congressional vote,&#8221; the suit claims. &#8220;Wisconsin’s Constitution prohibits this injustice several times over. This Court should grant this original action and replace the adopted congressional map with a lawful alternative.&#8221;
Wisconsin GOP Chair Brian Schimming said the suit was a desperate attempt to gain power.
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
&#8220;No one is surprised that liberal Mark Elias is challenging Wisconsin&#8217;s Congressional maps,&#8221; he <a href="https://www.wispolitics.com/2025/wisgop-response-to-lawsuit-challenging-congressional-maps/">said</a> in a statement. &#8220;This politically motivated lawsuit is a desperate attempt by far-left Democrats who have shown time and time again that they can’t win without rigged maps.&#8221;
The challenge comes after a contentious Supreme Court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dangerously-liberal-judge-projected-to-win-wisconsin-supreme-court-race?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=‘Dangerously+Liberal’+Judge+Wins+Wisconsin+Supreme+Court+Race" target="_blank" rel="noopener">election</a> in April that pitted conservative candidate Brad Schimel against liberal Judge Susan Crawford. After what became the most expensive judicial race in American history, Crawford one with 55% of the vote.
One of the key issues during the race was that of congressional maps as both Republicans and Democrats believed that the results of the election would determine the future of the maps. In a media appearance before the election, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) suggested that Democrats could get more favorable maps if Crawford won the race.
“There are gerrymandered congressional lines right now in Wisconsin,” Jeffries said. “As soon as possible, we need to be able to revisit that and have fair lines. The only way for that to be even a significant possibility is if you have an enlightened Supreme Court.”
During a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/musk-says-wisconsin-supreme-court-election-is-a-vote-for-which-party-controls-the-house?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Musk+Says+Wisconsin+Supreme+Court+Election+Is+A+Vote+For+‘Which+Party+Controls’+The+House" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rally</a> in support of Schimel, Elon Musk said that the outcome would determine the future of the country.
“What’s happening on Tuesday is a vote for which party controls the U.S. House of Representatives. That is why it is so significant. And whichever party controls the House, to a significant degree controls the country, which then steers the course of Western Civilization,” Musk said, adding that he thought the “entire destiny of humanity” could be impacted by the race.

Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Candidate Judge Susan Crawford Holds Her Election Night Event

Wisconsin GOP Congressional Maps In Jeopardy As Leftist Group Appeals To Liberal Supreme Court

Congress

The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday suspended the Milwaukee judge accused of helping an illegal immigrant evade federal agents until further notice. 
The court, which has a 4-3 liberal majority, said Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan would be temporarily relieved of duty while she faced federal charges. Dugan was arrested on Friday and charged with obstruction of a federal agency and concealing a person to help them avoid arrest. 
“The court has learned that Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah C. Dugan has been charged with two federal criminal offenses, one of which is a felony and one of which is a misdemeanor,” the court wrote in an order. &#8220;In the exercise of that constitutional authority and in order to uphold the public confidence in the court of this state during the pendency of the criminal proceeding against Judge Dugan, we conclude on our own motion that it is the public interest that she be temporarily relieved of her official duty.”
It added that Dugan would be “temporarily prohibited from exercising the powers of a circuit court judge in the State of Wisconsin” until further “order of the court.” 
Lawyers for Dugan said that they disagreed with the court’s decision. 
&#8220;We are disappointed that the Court acted in unilateral fashion,&#8221; they <a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/29/wisconsin-supreme-court-suspends-judge-hannah-dugan-after-charges/83354123007/">said</a>. &#8220;We continue to assert Judge Dugan’s innocence and look forward to her vindication in court.&#8221;
Federal investigators <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25919655-1034-001-1-1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">say</a> that Dugan helped Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, avoid arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement when he showed up at the Milwaukee County Court Complex. Flores-Ruiz was charged in Milwaukee with three counts of battery-domestic abuse-infliction of physical pain or injury. He was previously deported in 2013.
According to the FBI, six members of an ICE task force showed up at the courthouse on April 18 to arrest Flores-Ruiz, where they agreed to wait to arrest him until after his domestic abuse appearance. The FBI said that Dugan had been informed of the ICE agents’ presence and “became visibly angry” and called the situation ”absurd,” according to witness interviews.
After directing the arresting ICE team to the chambers of the chief judge, Dugan returned to her courtroom and told Flores-Ruiz to leave through the “jury door” into a non-public part of the courthouse, according to charging documents. Despite leaving the courtroom through the jury door, the ICE arresting team was able to track down Flores-Ruiz outside of the courthouse, where they arrested him after a foot chase.

Protestors Rally In Milwaukee After Judge’s Arrest By The FBI

Wisconsin Supreme Court Suspends Judge Charged With Sabotaging ICE Arrest

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

The Trump Admin Arrests Dangerous, Power-Hungry Judge And The Media Has A Total Meltdown

Democrats

gangs

Judges

Leftists

Legacy Media

Liberals

Matt Walsh

Opinion

President Trump

FBI Director Kash Patel said on Friday that federal agents arrested a Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, judge who is suspected of helping an illegal immigrant from Mexico evade Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.
Last week, ICE agents showed up at a Milwaukee County Courthouse to arrest a Mexican citizen after a hearing before Judge Hannah Dugan. The judge directed ICE agents to wait in Chief Judge Carl Ashley&#8217;s office and then told the defendant to exit the courtroom through a side door, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel <a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/2025/04/25/fbi-investigating-allegations-that-milwaukee-judge-helped-an-immigrant-avoid-ice-arrest-dugan/83250128007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
&#8220;We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse, Eduardo Flores Ruiz, allowing the subject — an illegal alien — to evade arrest,&#8221; Patel said in a post that was initially deleted. &#8220;Thankfully, our agents chased down the perp on foot and he’s been in custody since, but the Judge’s obstruction created increased danger to the public.&#8221; It was not immediately clear why Patel chose to initially delete the post, but he <a href="https://x.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/1915800907318468626?t=HrEySSHIGQFX5NqPMVpOpQ&amp;s=19">reposted</a> the same statement a short while later.
The FBI director added that the bureau would share more information &#8220;soon&#8221; and thanked the FBI&#8217;s Milwaukee field office for its work in arresting the judge.
United States Attorney General Pam Bondi also confirmed Dugan&#8217;s arrest in a<a href="https://x.com/AGPamBondi/status/1915799429455516128?t=8UTJOJOvUBSzY_rn896eDg&amp;s=19"> post</a> to X, stating, &#8220;I can confirm that our @FBI agents just arrested Hannah Dugan – a county judge in Milwaukee – for allegedly helping an illegal alien avoid an arrest by @ICEgov. No one is above the law.&#8221; 
According to Chief Judge Ashley, who sent an email to other judges about the incident, ICE agents showed a warrant for the illegal immigrant&#8217;s arrest and followed courthouse protocols. Dugan, who has served on the bench for nine years, responded to that email, however, saying &#8220;a warrant was not presented&#8221; to her.
ICE agents have <a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/breaking/2025/04/25/milwaukee-county-judge-hannah-dugan-arrested-by-feds-at-courthouse/83270885007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">routinely</a> shown up at the Milwaukee County Courthouse in recent weeks with arrest warrants. In the past two months, two suspected illegal immigrants were arrested by federal agents in the courthouse hallways.
During Trump&#8217;s first term in office, a Massachusetts judge was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/us/politics/fbi-arrest-judge.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charged</a> by the Justice Department with obstructing immigration agents after she and a court officer allegedly helped an illegal immigrant sneak out the back door of the courthouse. The federal government later dropped the charges after the judge agreed to go through potential judicial discipline.

Kash Patel

FBI Arrests Judge Accused Of ‘Intentionally’ Misdirecting ICE Agents Away From Illegal Immigrant

Judge

kash patel

Green Bay Packers legend and Super Bowl winner Clay Matthews delivered a &#8220;message&#8221; he joked came from President Donald Trump aimed at rival Chicago Bears on Thursday night during the opening night of the NFL Draft.
Ahead of the first pick of the draft, Matthews, who played linebacker for the Packers for 10 seasons, took to the podium at the draft in Green Bay in front of NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to take a well-timed shot at the Bears.
&#8220;I&#8217;m gonna go off script here real quick &#8230; Roger,&#8221; Matthews said, flanked by other former Packers greats up on stage. &#8220;I just got off the phone with the president, Donald Trump. He asked me to pass a message along to all 32 NFL franchises. Let me tell you what it reads here, alright.&#8221;
&#8220;It says, &#8216;My fellow Americans, the Bears still suck!'&#8221; Matthews chanted into the microphone to the cheering crowd.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
This is great. 😂
Former Packers linebacker Clay Matthews surprised the crowd at the NFL Draft by jokingly telling them he had a message from Trump for all 32 NFL teams.
&quot;Roger, I just got off the phone with the President, Donald Trump.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/Ojhz5mSPLf">pic.twitter.com/Ojhz5mSPLf</a>
&mdash; CatholicVote (@CatholicVote) <a href="https://twitter.com/CatholicVote/status/1915584282195628465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Matthews made the comments as he was surrounded by other former Packers like Jordy Nelson, Mason Crosby, Ahman Green, and James Jones. Earlier in the night, the former Packers linebacker had biked out onto the stage alongside Goodell, mimicking a Packer tradition where players ride young fans&#8217; bikes during training camp.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
Roger Goodell led former Packers and Lil Wayne out on stage on bikes 😂 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NFLdraft?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NFLdraft</a> <a href="https://t.co/vqTWNG8G63">pic.twitter.com/vqTWNG8G63</a>
&mdash; ESPN (@espn) <a href="https://twitter.com/espn/status/1915558488052269465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
As a Packer, Matthews went 16-3 against the Bears as he played from 2009-2018 during the Aaron Rodgers era. In 2011, Matthews and the Packers defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Super Bowl 31-25. In that game, Matthews forced a fumble in the fourth quarter that proved to be a critical turning point.
Other Packer legends have developed a close association with Trump in recent years. Three time MVP and Super Bowl winner Brett Favre <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/packers-legend-brett-favre-rallies-for-trump-time-to-bench-kamala" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was outspoken</a> about his support for Trump during the 2024 presidential election. The former quarterback even appeared at an event in Green Bay days before the election to rally support for Trump.
“I can tell you one thing, I knew I would come back to Green Bay at various times, but I never thought I would come back in this setting,” Favre said at the time. &#8220;Much like the Packer organization, Donald Trump and his organization is a winner. The United States of America won with his leadership.&#8221;
Trump ended up defeating Kamala Harris by just under 30,000 votes in Wisconsin.

2025 NFL Draft – Round 1

Packers Legend Says He Has ‘Message’ From Trump To Deliver At NFL Draft

Brett Favre

Chicago Bears

Donald Trump

Green Bay Packers

A Wisconsin teenager charged with the murder of his parents was allegedly plotting to assassinate President Donald Trump, according to the FBI.
An FBI <a href="https://htv-prod-media.s3.amazonaws.com/files/casap-fed-sw-67f9cbaa7affd.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">affidavit</a> unsealed on Sunday said that 17-year-old Nikita Casap murdered his parents as part of an alleged plan to assassinate Trump and overthrow the American government. A manifesto cited by the FBI in the affidavit revealed a plan to kill Trump in order to sow chaos in the United States.
Casap was already <a href="https://www.waukeshacounty.gov/media/0yqgp1rd/03-27-25-cider-hills-update.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">under arrest</a> by the Waukesha County Sheriff’s Department for the murder of Tatiana Casap and stepfather Donald Mayer. Their bodies were uncovered by law enforcement officers after Casap did not show up to school for two weeks, and they were asked to perform a welfare check.
According to the FBI, they were murdered as part of Casap’s plan to kill Trump.
“He was in touch with other parties about his plan to kill the President and overthrow the government of the United States. And he paid for, at least in part, a drone and explosives to be used as a weapon of mass destruction to commit and attack. The killing of his parents appeared to be an effort to obtain the financial means and autonomy necessary to carrying out his plan,” the FBI application for a search warrant said.
“Other parties, with whom Casap was in contact, appear to have been aware of his plan and actions and to have provided assistance to Casap in carrying them out,” the agency added.
The affidavit was provided in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin to show probable cause that Casap was engaged in a conspiracy to kill the president and an attempt to use a weapon of mass destruction.
The FBI investigation said that Casap had adopted radical views, and wanted to kill Trump and possibly Vice President JD Vance to “bring some chaos.” He allegedly wanted to bring down the government because he believed that the American government was controlled by Jews.
“It is clear that the jews control all of the White countries, and it is clear that they promote White genocide and degeneracy. This for the white race to survive, it is necessary to accelerate the collapse of the countries,” a portion of his alleged manifesto included in the affidavit said.
The manifesto also included the line, “HAIL HITLER HAIL THE WHITE RACE HAIL VICTORY.” 
The FBI said that Casap planned to flee to Ukraine after the attack and was communicating with a male in Russia about the plans.

President Trump Meets With El Salvador President Nayib Bukele At The White House

Wisconsin Teen Accused Of Murdering Parents As Part Of Plot To Assassinate Trump

assassination attempt

Murder

Menu