MILWAUKEE — Days after a sitting Milwaukee County judge was arrested and charged with two federal felonies after prosecutors claim she helped an undocumented immigrant evade arrest, the Wisconsin Supreme Court this week temporarily suspended Judge Hannah Dugan, saying its in the public interest as the federal case against her moves forward.

"It's a very broad statute and what's interesting about it is that it does require that the person committing the obstruction have some type of corrupt intent," said Professor John Gross, a clinical associate professor at UW-Madison Law School. "I think that's something that's debatable in this case— exactly what was the judge attempting to do? Was her objection about the arrest taking place within the courthouse itself as opposed to an objection as to the legality of making arrests period?"

As for publicly arresting the judge as opposed to simply filing the charges against her and asking her to appear in court?

"It was completely unnecessary and I think deliberate in that they arrested the judge literally on the courthouse steps as she was going to work," Professor Gross said. "If you're contemplating filing a federal charge against someone and it's someone whose stature in the community is such that you do not expect them to flee, you expect them to surrender to you if you ask them to, that would be the customary practice."

Judge Dugan's preliminary hearing is set for May 15.

Watch the full interview above.