Nyt's columnist defends the 'civil disobedience' of the judge as 'heroico'

New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that a Wisconsin judge allegedly protecting an illegal immigrant Of the immigration and compliance agents (ICE) of the United States they would be “something illegal” and “somewhat heroic” against the Trump administration.

On Friday, Brooks commented on the news that the judge of the Milwaukee County Circuit Court, Hannah Dugan, was arrested and accused of obstruction of an official procedure after the evidence came to light that Eduardo Flores-Ruiz de Eduardo Mexico had previously protected. Ice agents After his hearing in court.

According to a criminal complaint, Dugan demanded that the officers proceed to the office of the main judge and, after his hearing ended, escorted Flores-Ruiz and his lawyer for a restricted jury door, without going through the public area where the agents waited to help him avoid the arrest.

David Brooks from New York Times appeared in “PBS Newshour” on Friday. (Screen capture/PBS)

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Although I did not “know the specific details of this case” at that time, Brooks said that even if they dug “he escorted this type through the door”, this could be considered a form of “necessary” civil obedience.

“It seems perhaps something illegal, but it also seems heroic. And in times of problems, then people are sometimes called to make civil disobedience. And, in my opinion, when people do civil disobedience, they have to pay the price. That is part of the heroism, frankly,” Brooks said in “PBs Newshour.”

He continued: “And therefore, both may think that she should not have done this legally and that morally protecting someone against, perhaps even in this case, but in other cases, frankly, an agency of application of the predatory law, sometimes, civil disobedience is necessary.”

Judge of the Milwaukee Hannah Dugan County Circuit Court, the Milwaukee County Court and the ice agents

The judge of the Milwaukee County Circuit Court, Hannah Dugan, was arrested on Friday. (Mike of Sisti / USA Today Network Through Imagn Images, Left, Mike De Sisti / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA Today Network through Imagn images, up to the right, Christopher Dilts / Bloomberg through Getty Images, below right,),))

Brooks speculated that there may be a similar resistance in the coming weeks and months and encouraged protesters to resist peacefully.

“That is one of the ways in which public opinion can change, because one of the ways in which authoritarians lose control is when their opponents protest in a non -violent way, and authoritarian women take violently energetic measures. That is the way it delegates an authoritarian regime. And so, it can reach that,” Brooks said.

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Flores-Ruiz faced three positions of aggression for minor crimes for allegedly hitting two people when he attended his hearing of the criminal court with Dugan on April 18. He was arrested after the authorities said they considered a probable cause that it was removable under the United States immigration law, since it was. previously deported And he never searched or obtained permission to re -enter the country.

When the agents identified him outside the Court on April 18, he fled the scene on foot but was arrested after a brief prosecution, according to the criminal complaint.