How many times have Democrats told us, and told us, “no one is above the law?”  They always focused on the area above the law, because they have proved conclusively that they considered that Donald Trump was below the law, as they relentlessly tried to bankrupt him and imprison him for life.

There always are exceptions to the Democrat “no one is above the law” meme, however.  Grandmothers who walked in one door of the Capitol, and out another on January 6 were not above the law.  On the other hand, Democrats thought that George Floyd rioters who rampaged while committing arson, theft, assault and murder should be above the law.

BLM rioters who obstructed traffic, damaged property, and attacked courthouses and police stations, while stealing millions of dollars of donations were considered above the law by Democrats.

Last week, we explored Democrat support of illegal alien criminals, who the Dems are fighting to keep in the country, rather than being deported in accordance with the law.  Clearly then, they think that illegal aliens are above the law.

This week, the Dems are at it again.  They’ve added a new category of people who are above the law.  Strangely, this group consists of highly educated people who have learned so much about the laws that they are entrusted with the duty of enforcing them.  I refer to judges.

In these pages I have discussed the judges who are forsaking their oaths in attempts to usurp executive authority which they have no right to attempt to exercise.  That conduct is bad enough.  But this week we saw two examples of judges who have blatantly broken the law.

In New Mexico, a judge and his wife have been arrested on federal charges of harboring an alien.  It seems the judge and his wife were living with a number of illegal aliens, one of whom, Ortega-Lopez, is a member of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang that has been linked to human trafficking and other crimes targeting migrants, as well as money laundering, drug smuggling, kidnapping and extortion.

Ortega-Lopez had posted photos and videos on Facebook showing him at what appears to be a shooting range in Las Cruces holding handguns or assault-style rifles.  Investigators said they identified tattoos, clothing and hand gestures “commonly associated” with Tren de Aragua in photos and videos posted online by Ortega-Lopez.

The judge is now a former judge.  He and his wife are facing prison, and the illegal alien gang members will be deported, assuming the Supreme Court puts an end to the nationwide injunctions preventing the President from doing his job.

Then there is the puzzling case of Milwaukee County judge Hannah Dugan.  One moment, there she was, presiding over a domestic violence hearing, in which an illegal alien named Ruiz, with a record for violent criminal charges including strangulation and suffocation, battery, and domestic abuse, and illegally entering the US twice, was charged with assaulting his current paramour.  

The victims were present in the courtroom, hoping for justice to be done, when the judge got word that two ICE agents were in court to take Ruiz into custody.  Now, let me digress.  Judges of any political stripe do not take kindly to people, even from law enforcement, interrupting their proceedings.  I have had occasion to notify a NJ State judge that, once the case was called for arraignment, two FBI agents were going to arrest the defendant and take him to Indiana for federal prosecution. Given forewarning, there was no problem.   

But that’s not what happened in Milwaukee.  The complaint states that while the team assigned to arrest Ruiz, which included FBI and DEA agents, waited for the hearing to conclude, they were photographed by a public defender, who informed the judge’s clerk that “there appeared to be ICE agents in the hallway.”  Dugan “became visibly angry” and left the bench to confront the federal agents, according to an affidavit by a FBI special agent.

After initially demanding that the officers leave the building if they were not there for a court appearance, Dugan allegedly directed the federal agents away from her courtroom to Chief Judge Carl Ashley’s office after being shown the immigration warrant for Ruiz.

After Dugan had gone back inside, a deputy assigned to her courtroom told a member of the federal team that he had not alerted Dugan to their presence and added that the judge was “‘pushing’ Ruiz’s case through.” After Ruiz’s appearance was completed, the deputy heard Dugan “say something like, ‘Wait, come with me’” before escorting Ruiz and his attorney out of the courtroom’s “jury door” to a non-public area of the courthouse, where the chief judge had advised the feds that they could not arrest Ruiz.

The courtroom deputy had previously heard Judge Dugan direct people not to sit in the jury box because it was exclusively for the jury’s use.  According to the courtroom deputy, only deputies, juries, court staff, and in-custody defendants being escorted by deputies used the back jury door.  Defense attorneys and defendants who were not in custody never used the jury door.  Ruiz and his lawyer made it out onto the street before the agents caught up with them, and took Ruiz into custody.

Judge Dugan was arrested on a federal warrant, and is facing up to six years in prison.  Presumably, once again, when the Supreme Court permits the Administration to do its job, Ruiz will be back in sunny Mexico, which, now that I think about it, has to be better than Milwaukee.  Paraphrasing Thomas More from A Man For All Seasons, “It profits a man nothing to violate the law for the whole world, but for Milwaukee?”

Unsurprisingly, the Left had a conniption fit over the judge arrests.  Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley once again proved the Left to be immune to irony.  “I couldn’t believe what I had seen and was horrified by the actions of the FBI coming onto our county courthouse grounds, literally going after a sitting judge who’s not a flight risk.”

Yeah right!  Just like 72 year old Roger Stone wasn’t a flight risk when the FBI raided his house at dawn with SWAT teams and frogmen, all one bogus charges.  Just like Peter Navarro wasn’t a flight risk, when he was arrested by a team of agents who carted him away in chains, for failing to answer a Congressional subpoena, the same offense former Attorney General, and Obama “wingman” Eric Holder committed without penalty of any kind.  And don’t even get me started on the elderly people who committed the heinous crime of praying outside abortion clinics, who were rousted out of their homes in handcuffs by teams of badge wearing thugs.

So the next time you hear any Democrat recite, “No one is above the law,” remind them of the exceptions discussed above.  And remind them that their conduct has proven that they mean “almost no one.”