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A federal judge ruled the attorney general’s suit seeking a Line 5 pipeline shutdown should be heard in federal court. Nessel wanted the matter kept in state court, where she saw a more secure path to victory.
An Oakland County judge hears testimony over two days. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer wants to bar enforcement of a 1931 ban on abortion. Some prosecutors contend they should have the right since Roe was overturned.
Some Republican prosecutors want to enforce Michigan’s long-dormant abortion law. A county court judge is currently mulling a request from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s legal team to prevent that while the legality of abortion in Michigan wends through the courts.
Michigan secretary of state candidate Kristina Karamo held a fundraiser with Trump on Tuesday night in New Jersey. New disclosure reports show Karamo and attorney general hopeful Matt DePerno have raised far less than Democratic incumbents Jocelyn Benson and Dana Nessel.
A forensic data firm retained by allies of former President Donald Trump was reportedly paid to obtain and provide data from county election systems in Michigan and other battleground states.
The attorney general wants a special prosecutor to investigate her Republican rival on claims he breached the security of election equipment. The bid comes on the eve of county Republican conventions.
The request from Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office claims that voting machines were breached in an effort to prove former President Donald Trump’s false claims he won the 2020 election in Michigan.
Plugging sensitive reproductive health data, such as information on menstrual cycles, into a tracking app could be used in prosecutions if the state once again bans abortion, the Attorney General warned.
The Michigan Supreme Court unanimously rejected the use of a one-judge grand jury by Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office to indict the ex-governor and other Flint water crisis defendants. Snyder’s lawyers blasted prosecutors as “vindictive.”
Hospitals are sending mixed signals, or no signal at all, on whether they will perform abortions. Some local prosecutors say they can now charge abortion doctors, which state leaders deny. The result, for now, is legal chaos.
An injunction suspending enforcement of Michigan’s 1931 ban on abortions only applies to the state, an attorney for prosecutors contends, revealing the tenuousness of the law after the Supreme Court decision.
Justice Clarence Thomas writes that laws legalizing same-sex marriage and contraception should be revisited. If federal protections end, old Michigan laws could take effect.
Michigan was poised to outlaw most abortions after Roe fell, but a judge recently suspended the state’s 1931 abortion ban. While that case is sorted out, clinics expect more out-of-state patients at Michigan clinics to get the procedure.
Questions and answers after ruling: Abortion is still legal and being performed, but that could change soon as the courts adjudicate a 1931 ban that predated Roe v. Wade.
The fate of abortion access will be left to states under a new U.S. Supreme Court ruling. Michigan has a 1931 law that makes abortion a felony that is being litigated in the court system.
Performers who normally love the spotlight find themselves mighty uncomfortable being thrust into a debate about school-aged children, following remarks by Attorney General Dana Nessel.
I had a front row seat to this process: students and parents requesting changes, counselors and administrators trying their best to accommodate these requests, and everyone stuck in a rigid system.
Seeking to intervene in a high-stakes suit over an old abortion ban, the GOP-led Legislature contends a recent injunction is a “blatant conflict of interest” and should be set aside.
