A new brief from Piper Fund synthesizes perspectives shared at the “Lessons from Poland for U.S. Judges on Defending the Rule of Law” convening and through participant interviews afterward into key takeaways.
It also explores the “Chilling Effect” and the case of the United States vs. Hannah C. Dugan, a judge for nine years in Wisconsin’s Circuit Court and former president of the Milwaukee Bar Association, for allegedly helping an undocumented non-citizen dodge federal immigration agents from the Milwaukee County Courthouse. Dugan’s trial, which begins this month, has the potential to set a dangerous precedent of legal harassment, “show trials,” and character assassination that became all too familiar in Poland.