BURLINGTON, VT—U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, issued the following statement in reaction to the FBI’s arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan, a Milwaukee county circuit court judge: 

“The FBI cannot be allowed to arrest a judge because she won’t assist President Trump in carrying out his illegal deportation agenda. This is a gross violation of the power of the executive. President Trump is using the once-independent Justice Department to run roughshod over the Judiciary. Every one of my colleagues must stand up against this assault on the rule of law, and call this what it is: a constitutional crisis.” 

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