On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks commented on the Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan case by stating that “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 that while it may not be the case in this specific instance, when dealing with “a predatory enforcement agency, sometimes, civil disobedience is necessary. And I don’t know if we’ll get to this point, but we could get to this point in weeks or months, where acts of civil disobedience on a lot of fronts may be necessary.”
Brooks said, “Well, obviously, they’re trying to
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