Massachusetts District Court Judge Shelley M. Richmond Joseph faces charges that she helped a man who was living in the U.S. illegally evade an immigration agent.
Andrew Lelling, U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts, at a Boston news conference in March.
Lawyers, judges and advocates have criticized President Trump's administration for stepping up immigration arrests at courthouses, saying it is disrupting the criminal justice system and scaring people away from halls of justice. Joseph, 51, and MacGregor, 56, were scheduled to appear in Boston federal court Thursday. Joseph has been suspended without pay, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court said.
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