The Michigan Supreme Court ruled last October that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer could no longer use a 1945 emergency powers law to issue pandemic orders, but the group Unlock Michigan is still fighting tooth and nail to have the law taken off the books.
April 22, 2021 By Jessica Mathews / news@whmi.com
No charges will be filed against paid petition circulators for a Republican-affiliated committee accused of using illegal, corrupt and improper tactics to obtain signatures, including in Livingston County.â¨
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel opened an investigation into Unlock Michigan last September after videos suggested evidence of irregularities in the way petition circulators obtained signatures. The undercover videos showed petition circulators using illegal tactics to gather signatures in Brighton and Howell to repeal a 1945 law that gave Governor Gretchen Whitmer broad powers to manage the coronavirus crisis without legislative approval. The law has since been struck down as unconstitutional by the Michigan Supreme Court.
Unlock Michigan petition certification fails in split vote of state canvassers
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Unlock Michigan turns in signatures on a petition to limit Gov. Gretchen Whitmer s emergency powers on Oct. 2, 2020.
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LANSING, MI - A law deemed unconstitutional that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer previously used to issue pandemic orders will remain on the books, for now.
The Board of State Canvassers failed to certify the signatures of a petition seeking to repeal the law during a Thursday, April 22 board meeting. The anti-executive power group Unlock Michigan submitted more than half a million signatures in October 2020 in a petition drive aimed at undoing the 1945 law Whitmer used to issue executive orders last year.
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