To read the Criminal Complaint and attached FBI Affidavit that gave rise to Wisconsin State Judge Hannah Dugan’s federal criminal arrest today for obstructing or impeding a proceeding before a department or agency of the United States and concealing an individual to prevent his discovery and arrest is at once to know to a certainty that neither the state courts nor the federal courts could ever even hope to administer justice if the spectacle that took place in Judge Dugan’s courthouse last Friday April 18 took place in the courthouses across the country.

On the facts as alleged by the FBI, it’s hard to imagine that the Federal Government could ever prove that Judge Dugan “obstructed or impeded a proceeding before a department or agency of the United States” within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. Section 1505 or that she “concealed an individual so as to prevent his discovery and arrest” within the meaning of 18 U.S.C Section 1071.