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Wednesday, February 25, 2026·1m·▶ Watch / Listen

A legal services panel revisited a right-to-counsel measure carried over from last year, with the Minority Leader withholding support pending clarification on a pending amendment while signaling openness to a yes.

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I obviously remember this bill last year, but larger the conversation being that there are basic principles that we expect, and we expect that if you're going to be facing having your liberty denied, that you have an attorney be there with you or at least the possibility of an attorney, that the courtroom and the proceedings be public, that it not be done in private or done in such a way that you wouldn't be able to access that record.

Matt SoperSoper laid out the core rationale for the measure — right to counsel and public proceedings when a person's liberty is at risk.

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Make sure that I'm do doing my due diligence on it. So I will respectfully be a no today. But you have my commitment that I'll, I'll work and get some clarification on if this amendment brings them to a better place and, and get their reasonings for the, the amending position. Um, so I will be a no today, but I'm certainly open to being a yes, um, after today. Thank you. Thank you, Minority Leader. Representative soper. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And thank you, Representatives. I obviously remember this bill last year, but larger the conversation being that there are basic principles that we expect, and we expect that if you're going to be facing having your liberty denied, that you have an attorney be there with you or at least the possibility of an attorney, that the courtroom and the proceedings be public, that it not be done in private or done in such a way that you wouldn't be able to access that record. And these are basic principles that we've had really since the founding of our country. And these were things that we laid out within our founding documents as well. And these were
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