Watch: NYT Columnist's Jaw-Dropping Hot Take on Judge Dugan Arrest

It's hard to believe how broken Democrats and liberal media are at this point.

But the case of the arrest of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan has exposed it even more.

According to the government, Dugan directed federal agents away from the hallway outside of her courtroom to see the chief judge, then hustled illegal alien defendant Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, whose case she was supposed to hear, out another door. The affidavit also noted that, on top of all that, the case against Flores-Ruiz wasn't called. When the state's attorney asked, the attorney found out the case had been adjourned even though the state's attorney and the victims were there for it.

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So much for that "due process" that the victims had come for, and that Democrats are now screaming about. Reminder: the illegal alien was facing multiple charges of domestic violence, and he had already been deported once, so he was a re-entry.

Not a good look. As CNN legal analyst Elie Honig observed (sounding like he was trying to get through to Democrats), if the allegations against Dugan were true, "It is a crime!"

But that didn't stop some like NY Times columnist David Brooks from going off the rails on it. Among a slew of bad hot takes, his is up there at the top. This is a golden example of why the media has lost credibility with the American people.

“Well, obviously, they’re trying to send a note of intimidation, not only to her, but to all judges and maybe to all Americans,” he said. “But I don’t yet know the specific details of this case.”

🚨NYT’s David Brooks doesn’t "know the specific details" of the Judge Dugan case — but says she was “heroic."

“If the federal enforcement agencies come to your courtroom and you help a guy escape, that is two things..."

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So if you don't know the details, why are you commenting? How can it be "obvious" intimidation when you don't even know the facts of the case? You say you don't want to comment, yet you are commenting. This tells you all you need to know about why media today is in trouble.

Then Brooks made it worse.

And to me, if she- - let’s say she did escort this guy out the door. If federal enforcement agencies come to your courtroom and you help a guy escape, that is two things. One, it strikes me as maybe something illegal, but it also strikes me as something heroic.
And in times of trouble, then people are sometimes called to do civil disobedience. And in my view, when people do civil disobedience they have to pay the price. That’s part of the heroism of it, frankly. And so you can both think that she shouldn’t have legally done this, and that, morally, protecting somebody against, maybe not even in this case, but in other cases, frankly, a predatory enforcement agency...

The video is clipped, but his comment ends "sometimes civil disobedience is necessary," according to Mediaite.

Unbelievable. Forget about the enforcement of the law or any of the victims. We've now moved from "no one is above the law" to "sometimes civil disobedience is necessary," and breaking the law is "heroic." He wants to be able to offer an opinion, without getting held to any of the bad details in this particular case, so what is what he says worth? Absolutely nothing.

This is truly twisted.

Editor's Note: The mainstream media continues to deflect, gaslight, spin, and lie.

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