Michael Karlik
@michaelkarlik.bsky.social
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Judicial reporter at coloradopolitics.com and gazette.com. Shining a light on the work of our state and federal judges. Plus, full-time bird caretaker.
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During the first Trump term, I released an 8-episode podcast chronicling a small Ohio city where a group of political dissidents took control of the council, drove out the longtime Democratic mayor, and governed chaotically. This seems like a good time to resurface it:
tearitdownpodcast.substack.com
Tear It Down | Substack
A small group of outsiders wanted to change their city for the better. So they got elected. And then the revenge began. Listen on iTunes: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&...
tearitdownpodcast.substack.com
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izzos.us
This is wrong. "Due Process" is not specific set of things that applies in criminal prosecutions .

It is just "what is the process the govt is required to go through to be able take a certain action against a person."

So yes, criminal due process is different from deportation due process.
chinationalist.bsky.social
Due process right only apply to noncitizens in criminal prosecutions, and illegal alien removal is not a criminal proceeding (Fong Yue Ting v. US; Padilla v. US)
michaelkarlik.bsky.social
Colorado's Federalist Society chapter is hosting John Eastman next week, who was the legal achitect of the plan to reject the 2020 election results and, so far as I know, isn't allowed to practice in Colorado's federal court (www.coloradopolitics.com/2024/04/29/f...). The event is closed to media.
michaelkarlik.bsky.social
Judge Gordon Gallagher told the DOJ last week he wouldn’t extend the deadline to respond to a noncitizen’s challenge to his immigration detention due to the govt. shutdown.

“The Government is constitutionally obligated to provide due process,” he wrote.
www.coloradopolitics.com/2025/10/08/f...
Judge Gordon Gallagher
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segalmr.bsky.social
an amicus brief asking SCOTUS to reconsider its Bivens jurisprudence, and the brief is just this video
flglchicago.bsky.social
Here’s video of the incident
michaelkarlik.bsky.social
It seemed like there was some interest in remanding for CA10 to apply strict scrutiny. Is there a chance that happens and the panel (2D-1R) finds Colorado’s law satisfies the test?
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dlknowles.bsky.social
I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America
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sanho.bsky.social
“Laurie Eckman, 84, said she and her husband Richard Eckman, also 84 and a Vietnam war veteran, were rushed by federal officers “for no apparent reason.” She said her husband was leaning on his walker and wearing his Vietnam veterans cap as he was pushed to the ground.”
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wyden.senate.gov
Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question
michaelkarlik.bsky.social
At some point the weather will turn, but for now Phoebe loves being out in his tree in October 🦜🌲
A cockatoo in an evergreen tree
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kristinacooke.bsky.social
I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.
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marisakabas.bsky.social
SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years.

From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:
MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There.
A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.
slate.com
michaelkarlik.bsky.social
The 10th Circuit addressed what happens if a noncitizen is eligible to stay in the country due to hardship on their child, but the child is near the age cutoff. Even if the child was under 21 during the proceedings, the date of the decision is what matters:
www.coloradopolitics.com/2025/10/01/1...
10th Circuit clarifies when hardship to child can halt parent's deportation
The Denver-based federal appeals court clarified on Monday that immigration judges, when deciding whether to halt a person's deportation because of hardship to their child, should consider whether the...
www.coloradopolitics.com
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walterolson.bsky.social
“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’”

It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.
ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground
ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.
abc7chicago.com