Newsmax judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano asserted that President Donald Trump's Department of Justice "overreached" when agents arrested Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan for allegedly helping a migrant escape from immigration authorities.
On Monday, Napolitano noted that the ICE agents did not have an arrest warrant for the migrant in question.
"An administrative warrant is not an arrest warrant," he said. "No judge would recognize an administrative warrant... They have this administrative warrant, which is basically one ICE agent authorizing another ICE agent to detain someone."
"So I don't think there's a crime here," the analyst continued. "I think she has she has immunity. She can decide how a person leaves her courtroom."
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Napolitano said he could understand the FBI's point of view but disagreed with it.
"I think they overreached by arresting her," he observed. "Because they're on a bit of a jihad against judges, they decided to make an example out of this."
"I think this is the wrong case out of which to make an example," he added. "I think she has immunity. She can decide where a person leaves her courtroom from and what she says to that person, and she can't be prosecuted for it."
