U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi claimed, "Nobody is the above law," yesterday following the arrest of Milwaukee Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan by the FBI.
Judge Dugan is alleged to have obstructed justice in allowing a person in the country in the illegally to evade detection by ICE. While even some critics of the Trump Administration cede that Judge Dugan may well have done what she has alleged to have done, the aim and objective of this arrest is to intimidate public officials where it concerns immigrants - be they here legally or not.
However, from where I sit, Bondi has a great deal of chutzpah to say that nobody is the above the law when she works for a White House which is openly defying a unanimous Supreme Court demanding the federal government to facilitate the return of wrongly deported migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
Then again, the Supreme Court opened this door when they granted Trump's petition for presidential immunity last summer. So, we shouldn't be surprised when Trump sees fit to openly defy the Supreme Court even as he claims he isn't.
While it is true that Judge Dugan is not above the law, it is impossible for me to take AG Bondi's statement with any degree of seriousness. Bondi's edict is a classic case is demanding of others what she won't demand of herself or the administration which she serves.
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