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Friday, April 26, 2024
With the U.S. Supreme Court mum, a new law went into effect in Texas that bans abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy. That’s well before many women even know they are pregnant. The law allows private citizens to sue abortion providers and anyone else who helps a woman obtain an abortion — […]
Do certain sets of circumstances lie ahead of us wherein we change the world radically by the choices we make? ~ Dr. Vine Deloria Jr. By Dr. Aaron A. Payment, Chairperson Sault Ste. Marie Tribe Sault Ste. Marie Tribe Reservation ~ I begin with the above quote as the […]
DETROIT (AP) — A Michigan law that prohibits intimidation based on gender covers people who are transgender, the state Court of Appeals said Thursday. The court ruled in the case of a transgender woman who was shot in the shoulder after being confronted by a man at a Detroit gas station. The […]
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Republican lawmakers on Wednesday killed a law that underpinned coronavirus restrictions issued by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020, wiping it from the books after Michigan’s Supreme Court declared the measure unconstitutional. The Democrat is powerless to veto the citizen-initiated bill. A conservative group that organized the […]
LANSING — Michigan’s Republican-led Senate on Thursday voted to repeal an emergency powers law that Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer used to issue public health orders early in the COVID-19 pandemic. But the repeal, which the House could make official with a vote as soon as next week, will have no discernible effect […]
The Michigan Supreme Court is will soon hear arguments in what could be a landmark case for LGBTQ rights. The high court announced it will hear an appeal of a lawsuit against the Michigan Department of Civil Rights filed by two businesses that denied service to LGTBQ people based on […]
KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) — A federal appeals court said Friday it would rehear a dispute over a Trump administration ban on bump stocks, a device that allows semiautomatic firearms to fire rapidly. The decision comes three months after a three-judge panel at the court said a federal judge in Kalamazoo, Michigan, should have […]
LANSING, Mich. – Today, State of Michigan officials celebrated the United States Supreme Court’s 7-2 decision that upholds the Affordable Care Act in California v. Texas. “Every Michigander deserves access to quality, affordable health care, and today’s Supreme Court decision is a victory for all Michiganders,” said Governor Gretchen Whitmer. “The high quality, affordable health coverage provided under the Affordable Care Act is […]
Former 40th Circuit Judge Byron Konschuh will be suspended without pay for six years after the Michigan Supreme Court on Friday adopted a Judicial Tenure Commission report recommending disciplinary action. Mr. Konschuh pleaded no contest to a crime in 2016 and later made false statements about whether he had done […]
The Supreme Court decided on Monday that immigrants who are currently in the United States under temporary protected status are not eligible for a green card if they entered the country illegally. “Immigration laws provides a way for a “nonimmigrant”—a foreign national lawfully present in this country on a designated, […]
