🧵Former Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan was convicted of felony obstruction after helping an illegal alien evade ICE agents at her courthouse.
Her sentence? No prison—just a $5,000 fine.
Now let me tell you about my case.
2/ I was convicted of two MISDEMEANOR counts of contempt of Congress — max one year each.
A charge the DOJ had refused to bring against senior presidential advisers for 50 years under its own executive privilege opinions. My case is STILL on appeal.
3/ My sentence? FOUR MONTHS in federal prison — every day of which I served, at age 74 — plus a $9,500 fine.
Nearly double Dugan's fine. For a misdemeanor. She committed a felony and never saw the inside of a cell.
4/ Do the math. A novel misdemeanor prosecution contrary to decades of DOJ policy = prison.
Felony obstruction of federal law enforcement, caught on courthouse cameras = a fine and a lecture about what a good person you are.
5/ Who sentenced Dugan? Judge Lynn Adelman — a 20-YEAR Democratic Wisconsin state senator before Bill Clinton put him on the federal bench.
The same judge formally admonished in 2020 for publishing "The Roberts Court's Assault on Democracy," a broadside against the Court's conservatives.
6/ Adelman's words from the bench: Dugan is "an otherwise good person, upset by immigration policies," who "made a bad decision in the moment."
Nobody extended me that grace for honoring executive privilege on the instruction of a President of the United States.
7/ Who sentenced me? An Obama-appointed judge, in a DC courthouse, before a jury drawn from a city where Democrats outnumber Republicans roughly 10 to 1.
One-day trial. Three witnesses — all from the J6 committee. I was barred from even arguing executive privilege to the jury.
8/ And unlike Dugan — who walked out of court announcing her "return to public service" — I reported to federal prison in Miami while my appeal was still pending. The courts refused to let me stay free while I fought the conviction.
9/ Two justice systems. One standard for Trump officials. Another for the anti-Trump legal class.
"Equal Justice Under Law" is carved into the Supreme Court.
Right now, it reads like satire. Until your sentence depends on your crime and not your politics, no American is safe — because next time, it could be you.
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