Banning firearms on university property does not violate the Second Amendment, a panel of judges ruled on Friday. The Supreme Court could still weigh in.
Arraignments for the 16 ‘false electors’ charged with eight felony counts apiece are set for Aug. 10, court records show. Several defendants charged and their supporters are doubling down on the actions Attorney General Dana Nessel argues violated Michigan law.
Officials with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services initially denied an open records request by Bridge Michigan for emails and documents regarding a $25 million state grant but ultimately agreed to release them after a successful challenge.
Emails obtained by Bridge show Michigan officials pressed to expedite a grant to the former aide of ex-House Speaker Jason Wentworth; asked few questions before approving the project.
The group ranges from high-profile party officials to town clerks, mayors and a dairy farmer. Some are defiant, others flummoxed. All face the same felony charges for trying to award Michigan’s 2020 electoral votes to Donald Trump.
State voters in 2024 could decide whether good behavior should cut prison sentences. A group pushing the issue must first collect more than 350,000 signatures.
Police say they are largely choosing to educate motorists rather than slap them with citations for the beefed-up distracted driving law that went into effect on June 30.
The former House speaker bypassed projects with greater need to secure money for a dam and repairs to Lake Shamrock. Wentworth also secured $25M for a Clare health campus led by the same aide.
The change was spurred by Michigan voters’ choice to legalize recreational marijuana in 2018. Prison guards, state troopers, others will still be tested.
A former legislative aide to onetime House Speaker Jason Wentworth led both a nonprofit that secured the grant and a for-profit firm that was paid more than $820,000 days after it went into effect.
State police automatic expungement records obtained by Bridge Michigan show traffic offenses, theft, drug use or possession and weapons charges dominated the list of initial convictions dropped from criminal records in April.
An Oakland County judge gave a special prosecutor exactly what he wanted: A broad interpretation of a law that a grand jury could use to indict former attorney general candidate Matt DePerno and other 2020 election deniers accused of tampering with voting machines.
Contrary to earlier statements, Michigan didn’t suspend a $25 million health campus project overseen by a former aide to onetime House Speaker Jason Wentworth until one day after Bridge wrote about the deal.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation Wednesday making June 19, or Juneteenth, a paid state holiday for government workers. It marks the date enslaved people in Texas were emancipated by Union troops in 1865.
Every Michigan Republican serving in Congress is backing Trump’s bid to return to the White House, according to his campaign. The former president is leading in national polls while battling criminal indictments.
