Representative Dubitsky May Headlines
May 29, 2025
Source: Law Enforcement Today
HARTFORD, CT- Once again, Connecticut Democrats have come down on the wrong side of an 80/20 issue. Last week, the House Democratic majority advanced legislation that will force municipalities to abide by the state’s so-called “Trust Act,” which permits “any aggrieved person” to seek an injunction against a municipality or its agents, including police and school employees, that cooperate with federal immigration officials, the CT Mirror reports.
“The Trust Act is a travesty. It is an insult to the people of this state. The only purpose that the Trust Act serves is to hide criminals from law enforcement,” said Rep. Doug Dubitsky, a Chaplin Republican.
The bill was revised after pro-illegal alien advocates argued that municipalities, i.e., police departments, can ignore the state law already in place that defines when police and others can alert federal agents to the location of an illegal alien or detain them for deportation.
In the wake of the George Floyd fiasco in 2020, Connecticut Democrats, along with some complicit Republicans, worked overtime to tie the hands of police. The result has been police officers who are no longer able to do the job they were hired to do, and that has turned the highways and roads in Connecticut into the equivalent of the Daytona International Speedway. Police officers are hesitant to use force when it is clearly warranted, fearful they could face the wrath of the state’s inspector general. The latest cowardly act by Connecticut Democrats will lead to further chaos in the state, which is probably what they want.
May 25, 2025
Lawmakers’ clash over affordable housing stalls progress as clock running out
Source: Hartford Courant
Lawmakers could not even agree on the impact of the bill. While Republicans maintained that the legislation would take away local control, Rojas said that was not true.
The debate could “easily” have lasted 10 hours on the original bill as Rep. Doug Dubitsky, a Republican attorney, had filed 22 amendments alone, Candelora said. He had not seen an updated version of the bill but was hoping to view a new version over the holiday weekend in order to be prepared when the House reconvenes on Tuesday morning.
May 22, 2025
Facing filibuster, Democrats stall vote on CT omnibus housing bill
Source: ct mirror
Some lawmakers also took issue with the way the bill was drafted — as an omnibus bill containing more than a dozen concepts from at least three different committees. It’s a strategic decision typically used to limit debate. The idea is that it’s easier to do one long debate on a big bill rather than several long debates on small bills.
But frustrations about the process rose across both parties in the Capitol on Thursday, people close to the conversations said.
“It’s an insult to everything we do here,” said Rep. Doug Dubitsky, R-Chaplin. Dubitsky planned to introduce several amendments to the bill, he said, which likely would have lengthened debate.
May 21, 2025
Expansion of CT Trust Act passes House on largely party-line vote
Source: ct mirror
The reach of the Trust Act and the politics surrounding immigration have changed since 2013, and Republicans elected after their GOP colleagues voted for the original law were scathing in their appraisal of the latest revision and what preceded it.
“The Trust Act is a travesty. It is an insult to the people of this state. The only purpose that the Trust Act serves is to hide criminals from law enforcement,” said Rep. Doug Dubitsky, R-Chaplin, who was elected in 2014.