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A marathon Senate Judiciary hearing centered on SB26-005, which would open Colorado state courts to people whose constitutional rights are violated during civil immigration enforcement; after hours of raw testimony on both sides, the committee advanced the bill along party lines to Appropriations.
Key Actions
·Rights Violation in Immigration Enforcement RemedyPassed
Notable Quotes
“government officials are subject to the law too, meaning also and two, where we have rights, we have to have remedies when those rights are violated or can we truly be said to have rights at all?”
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Votes
Referred to Committee on AppropriationsAction
Yes (5)Julie Gonzales, Nick Hinrichsen, Katie Wallace, Dylan Roberts, Mike Weissman
No (2)John Carson, Lynda Zamora Wilson
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They will come to order on Monday 2nd February. Ms. Jensen, please start us off with the roll call. Senators Carson, President Gonzalez. Here. Henriksen. Here. Wallace. Here. Zamora Wilson. Here. Wiseman. Here. Mr. Chair. I'm sorry, I should have said the other, right? Not yet, not yet, not yet. I'm here. Jump again. One way or another, everyone's here. All right. For the record, we have one item on our agenda today, that is consideration of Senate Bill 5. Thanks everyone for bearing with us. We had sort of an uncustomarily long floor calendar on the Senate floor that delayed our usual 1:30 start. Because we have a large number of folks signed up to testify today, around 60. Our large hearing protocols will be in effect. What that means is a set of time limits intended to try to make sure that everyone can be heard here in the committee today. And hopefully we don't go too late and ask people to take even more time out of your days. So initially, the sponsors, that will be Senator Gonzalez and I will make our opening comments to the committee not to exceed 15 minutes. There will then be…
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