Gaines: Watch the framing—Karlik’s slant and Polis’ quiet appointments
By Cory Gaines | Commentary, Colorado Accountability Project
Colorado Politics' Karlik lets his bias slip (again).
Colorado Politics judicial reporter Michael Karlik is back at it (see the first link below for an earlier post about his reporting).
If it's not using his pen to question the motives of a conservative judge, it's tossing softballs at a liberal judge rather than challenging him. It's framing his questions in such a way as to clearly indicate what the point of the whole endeavor has been.
The Colorado Politics article linked second below is a Q and A Karlik had with retired judge John Leopold** to discuss Leopold's signing an amicus brief about the arrests of Minnesota Judge Hannah Dugan. She was the one who hustled someone ICE had a warrant for out the back door whe...










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