A three-judge panel will decide if electoral maps drawn by the state’s Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission violate the rights of Black Detroit voters.
Former President Donald Trump sued Michigan on Tuesday in an attempt to ensure he will appear on the 2024 ballot, despite separate lawsuits seeking to disqualify him over the Capitol “insurrection.”
New population council work group recommendation suggests Michigan needs to raise taxes for schools, cities and to fix roads. Tax increases would be a ways off, though.
Use these maps and tools to find out which judges — and courts — are more likely to pursue driving while intoxicated cases, rather than a lesser charge of driving while impaired.
Michigan had 26,700 drunk-driving arrests last year, half of which result in plea deals for impaired driving. Harsher penalties are far more common in west Michigan than in metro Detroit.
Michigan attorney Stephanie Lambert, now battling criminal charges in a tabulator tampering scheme, tried to force a ‘forensic audit’ of the 2020 contest backed by $1.2 million in funding from the former CEO of Overstock.com, according to newly released texts.
After voters changed the constitution, at least 38 communities are providing early voting before the Nov. 7 election. The local elections are expected to work out the kinks before next year’s presidential contest.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says she backs a plan to require public officials to disclose finances but exempt spousal income. She also says she won’t open her office to records requests until the Legislature does so.
The Senate passed a bill to do away with a controversial law that requires coverage for elective abortions to be purchased separately in health care plans. The bill faces a tough sell in the House.
A crackdown on distracted driving this week underscores that many aren’t aware of Michigan’s new law banning holding a phone, police say. One driver was working on a laptop. Another drove for miles before noticing police.
Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and others urge Democrats to close loopholes remaining in proposed rules to require officials to reveal assets. Defenders call rule ‘huge step forward’
The Secretary of State vows an appeal of a ruling that found she flouted state law in rolling out rules limiting poll challengers. It’s the most recent ruling finding that she overstepped her authority.
The legislation as introduced would allow lawmakers and state officials to leave out specifics transparency experts say are crucial to getting a full picture of financial influences.
Both the House and Senate have approved legislation to repeal a longstanding ban on hiring transportation to escort voters to polling places. Republicans say the repeal is an invitation to trouble.
Michigan allows courts to bill parents for costs of locking up their children, a system that allows debts to quickly grow to tens of thousands of dollars. The fees are so high many avoid getting their kids help. Now, the Legislature seeks a change.
‘At least it wasn’t a drunkfest,’ Michigan GOP chair Kristina Karamo says of money-losing Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference. Party needed loan to pay actor Jim Caviezel for a keynote address.
Worries about Chinese expansions into the U.S. food supply prompt legislation to bar 'adversarial entities' from buying farms in Michigan. Records show Chinese companies don't own much land, but sponsor says 'China will do whatever it takes to get a foot in the door.'
Republicans canvassers blocked a citizen ballot proposal to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour because organizers changed a definition in the petition before collecting an estimated 360,309 voter signatures.
Michigan’s Democratic-led Senate votes to repeal a series of abortion restrictions previously enacted by Republicans. But the bills could face a roadblock in the Democratic-led House.
In one of the first public policy disputes between Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Democratic legislative leaders, the Michigan Senate votes to undo health care price controls built into a 2019 insurance law overhaul.