Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan resigned from the bench Saturday, responding to pressure from Republican leaders in the state Assembly.

Her resignation comes just a couple weeks after she was convicted of a felony for interfering with the arrest this spring of an undocumented immigrant who appeared in her courtroom. Dugan has signaled her plans to appeal, arguing in her resignation letter that her case is an example of federal overreach.

JR Ross, the editor of multimedia news outlet WisPolitics, told our News Producer Faye Parks this afternoon that Dugan’s upcoming appeal could be a bid to run out the clock – in hopes that a Democrat will return to the Oval Office in 2028.

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