Michigan Government

Although marijuana is legal, many companies require drug screening for employment. Michigan would join 18 other states in banning the sale of synthetic urine designed beat the tests.

With Roe overturned, two candidates for Michigan governor want the Supreme Court to overturn a same-sex marriage decision and reinstate a dormant state ban.

Gov. Whitmer and GOP leaders are shelving tax cut talks to finish the budget. But any tax relief will have to wait, as cuts are shelved despite a $9 billion surplus.

‘I don't think that we need to have a problem occur in the state of Michigan before we address it," one sponsor says.

In a decision transparency advocates are celebrating, Michigan must disclose the full value of tax credits it awarded to the automaker more than a decade ago but still owes on.

From zombie flicks to fights over ‘sexualizing’ children and school equity initiatives, Tudor Dixon has suddenly become the GOP establishment's pick for Michigan governor.

Elizabeth Gleicher had a history of liberal advocacy as a lawyer before joining the Michigan Court of Appeals. Colleagues also say she’s a hard-working, fair judge.

Reproductive Freedom for All, a ballot measure to codify abortion rights into Michigan’s Constitution, says it’s experienced a surge in interest since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe.

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.”

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.

A conservative majority of justices overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which established a federal right to abortion. In a series of opinions, the nine-member court revealed deep divisions within their ranks.

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.

Federal authorities are warning Michigan anti-abortion groups of potential violence after the reversal of the federal law protecting abortion.

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.

Republicans cheer the reversal of Roe v. Wade, while Democrats work to negate a 1931 law that would make the procedure a felony.

At least one would-be elector whose signature appeared on a document falsely declaring President Trump the winner of the 2020 election was interviewed by federal investigators Thursday. A Trump campaign attorney involved in the Michigan effort was also subpoenaed.

A coalition of Democrats, as well as a few Republicans, are lobbying once again to increase the state’s clout in the primaries.

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