Remember how, last winter, Michigan Republicans, flush with corporate money and well armed with legislation drafted in far right think tanks, set out to kill unions, and systematically roll back women’s rights, gay rights, and public education? Well, it would appear that they weren’t quite done… Unsatisfied with having just control over the House, Senate […]
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Senate Bill 652, which will likely be signed into law Friday, ensures that handpicked Republican judges will hear cases brought against the State by the citizens of Michigan
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged checks and balances, coup d’état, Court of Appeals, Court of Claims, endgame, Gretchen Whitmer, Ingham County, legislative end run, Michigan Republican Party, Michigan Republicans, Michigan Supreme Court, NERD Func, Open Meetings Act, partisan politics, Rick Jones, Rick Snyder, Senate Bill 652, threats to Democracy 13 Comments
Democracy Now on the court case against Michigan’s Emergency Financial Managers
Yesterday, a lawsuit was brought by Detroit’s Maurice & Jane Sugar Law Center for Economic & Social Justice, challenging the legality of Michigan’s Emergency Financial Manager Act, which, as you will recall, gives the State the power to fire locally elected officials, replacing them with appointees (Czars) empowered to sell local assets, invalidate agreements, and […]
Posted in Detroit, Michigan Also tagged Amy Goodman, Andy Dillon, Constitution, corporate takeover of politics, coup d’état, Czars, Democracy Now, Edith Lee-Payne, Emergency Financial Manager, financial martial law, Georgia, John Philo, Kym Spring, Maurice & Jane Sugar Law Center for Economic & Social Justice, Naomi Klein, privatization, racism, Rick Snyder, right to vote, Rosemarie Aquilina, Sandy Springs, the Emergency Financial Manager Act, threats to Democracy 10 Comments