A group of more than 150 state and federal judges retired sent a letter to the Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday condemning the attacks of the Trump administration against the Judiciary, saying that it is clear that the president believes that he can “threaten and intimidate” the judges to submit to his agenda.

The letter focuses largely on the recent arrest of the Milwaukee County Circuit Judge, Hannah Dugan, whom the FBI director, Kash Patel, accused of helping an undocumented immigrant to “evade the arrest” and published a photo of his author on social networks.

“The circumstances of Judge Dugan’s arrest make it clear that it was nothing more than an effort to threaten and intimidate state and federal judiciary to submit to the administration, instead of interpreting the Constitution and the laws of the United States,” says the letter, saying that it was very worrying that the officers arrested Dugan in their own excursion without prior notice.

“There was no emergency at all; the administration could have easily issued a citation for Judge Dugan to appear before a court, as they would have done in other cases of white collar,” said the letter.

Attorney General PAM Bondi travels a research laboratory of the drug control administration on April 29.
Attorney General PAM Bondi travels a research laboratory of the drug control administration on April 29.

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The judges also responded directly to the recent appearance of News of Bondi in which he called judges as “upset” dug.

Calling Trump’s actions “It does not make us ‘disorders’. It is what makes us Americans, “the former judges wrote.

In that same interview, Bondi hinted at the possibility of arresting more judges.

“We are sending a very strong message today,” he said. “If you are housing a fugitive, we don’t care who you are. If you are helping to hide one, if you are giving a [gang] Guns member, anyone who is illegally in this country, we will look for it and we will process it. We will find you. “

The letter was headed by former federal judge Nancy Gertner and former deputy attorney general and federal judge J. Michael Luttig. His signatories include judges appointed by members of both parties.

Trump, argue the former judges, will never succeed in their efforts.

“This attempt to intimidate the Judiciary will fail,” they wrote. “The American people understand that the Constitution of the United States has made the nation’s judicial officers into the rule of law in our country, not the president.”