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A Wisconsin judge recklessly accused of helping a man evade arrest by U.S. immigration agents lost an attempt on August 26 to throw out the Trump administration’s case against her. The politically motivated prosecution of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan has highlighted the push by Donald Trump’s autocratic regime to confront state and local authorities who resist his sweeping immigration crackdown. Democrats have accused federal authorities under Trump of trying to make a national example of Judge Dugan to chill judicial opposition to its deportation efforts. Her April arrest at the county courthouse was a politically organized circus...

A day that began with the outgoing president’s pardon of lawmakers and his own family ended with the incoming president’s pardon of supporters who violently stormed the U.S. Capitol four years ago. The clemency grants by departing President Joe Biden and new President Donald Trump — one benefiting uncharged people not accused of wrongdoing, the other aiding rioters convicted of violent felonies — are vastly different in scope, impact, and their meaning for the rule of law. But the remarkable flex of executive authority in a 12-hour span also shows the men’s deeply rooted suspicion of one another, with...