Michigan Government

Republicans plea to stop efforts after the Democrat uses a campaign finance loophole for recall defenses to set a fundraising record.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Republican caucus break fundraising records, and next year’s election could be the costliest ever.

Canada will allow entry to vaccinated U.S. visitors as of Aug. 9, but the U.S. travel ban on non-essential Canadian visitors was extended to Aug. 21

The Republican-led House follows the lead of Senate colleagues, passes the Unlock Michigan petition drive to repeal emergency powers law.

The recently retired Detroit police chief says an announcement is likely around Labor Day, but tells Fox News 'I'm running.'

One of four Michigan residents are nonwhite. Two of 14 state representatives in Congress are people of color. As district maps get redrawn, advocates seek a greater voice.

Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf, who contemplated seizing voting machines, is now using a private investigator for an investigation of claims that local clerks say have been repeatedly debunked.

The Senate votes to wipe an emergency powers law off the books. One Democrat calls the repeal “a waste of energy and a waste of our air” because the state’s high court already declared the law unconstitutional.

As Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announces four $50,000 winners, health officials say they’re not seeing a rush for shots. Michigan’s vaccination rate is up less than 1 percentage point.

Jason Roe had deep roots in the Republican Party. But he was a ‘Never Trumpster’ and activists called for his ouster for months.

State officials on Tuesday approved petition signatures to repeal a 1945 emergency powers law, and the GOP-led Legislature could begin voting this week to adopt the measure from Unlock Michigan.

No decision, but a judge says pro-Trump attorneys should have done more to verify ‘fanastical claims’ in suit that foes say fomented the Capitol riots. But one lawyer says ‘we would file these same complaints again.”

The Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission sought to extend a Sept. 17 deadline for redrawing political maps, noting that new U.S. Census population figures would not even be available to it until the end of September.

This year’s state budget likely will look different because of the infusion of federal COVID relief funds, but budget negotiations are still a struggle.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has accepted a request from the Republican-led Senate Oversight Committee to investigate “those who have been utilizing misleading and false information” about the 2020 election “to raise money or publicity for their own ends.” And the state police are assisting.

The House signature-matching provision was added as an amendment last month to a bill that’s main purpose is to do away with the option of voting without an ID by signing an affidavit.

Legislators want Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to resume “walk-in” service at branch offices. But Benson said House legislation is essentially satisfied by a “walk up” system in which customers can get an appointment, but perhaps not that day.

In his first “political speech” since retiring as Detroit police chief, James Craig described himself as an anti-abortion and pro-gun conservative who twice voted for former President Donald Trump.

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Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf tried to enlist ‘constitutional sheriffs’ to seize Dominion voting machines, emails show, as his attorney kept Trump allies up to date. Nothing came of the effort.