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5 things the Michigan Legislature failed to address in 2020
Updated Dec 23, 2020;
Posted Dec 23, 2020
Protesters congregate at the Capitol Building during a protest against emergency business shutdown orders amid the coronavirus pandemic in Lansing on Thursday, April 30, 2020. Neil Blake | MLive.com
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LANSING, MI - The legislative agendas of Lee Chatfield and Mike Shirkey looked very different in 2020 than they did in 2019.
With COVID-19 dominating every aspect of life in 2020, the Republican leaders in the Michigan Legislature shifted focus to address the pandemic. While they fulfilled promises such as boosting education funding, lowering auto insurance costs and passing criminal justice reforms, one major shortcoming was obvious: No plan to mitigate disease spread made it out of either chamber.
5 ways the state Legislature helped Michiganders in 2020
Updated Dec 23, 2020;
Posted Dec 23, 2020
The Senate Chambers pictured at the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing on Thursday, April 25, 2019.Neil Blake | MLive.com
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LANSING, MI - Michigan Capitol politics in 2020 perhaps will perhaps be best defined by conflict over state power and COVID-19.
Legislative Republicans led by Speaker of the House Lee Chatfield, R-Levering, and Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, R-Clark Lake, battled Gov. Gretchen Whitmer all year on her legal authority to create COVID-19 legislation. They sued her administration, successfully invalidating her executive orders in the Michigan Supreme Court.
She countered with public health orders from the Department of Health and Human Services. Republicans passed bills to limit the timeline of those orders and want to create committees that can unilaterally suspend any rule or regulation from the Whitmer administration.
Dana Nessel considers seeking sanctions against attorneys who challenged election results in Michigan
and last updated 2020-12-22 16:07:10-05
DETROIT (WXYZ) â Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is considering seeking sanctions against attorneys who challenged Michigan s election results, according to a statement from the AG s office.
The office said while no final decisions have been made, they are looking at the cases where the arguments were not supported by facts.
The full statement from the attorney general s office is below: No final decisions have been made, but the Attorney Generalâs office will consider seeking sanctions when appropriate, including in cases where arguments made by plaintiffsâ attorneys were clearly unsupported by facts. Professional litigators should know better than to waste the courtâs time with baseless arguments designed to mislead the public, and we will consider filing grievances against those who violated the rules of pro
LANSING Michigan s Republican-led House on Monday capped its two-year session by finalizing a $465 million spending bill to fund additional COVID-19 testing, vaccine deployment, small business relief and worker assistance.
That’s atop the $900 billion federal relief package Congress is expected to begin voting on later Monday.
The state relief package sailed through the lower chamber in a 97-5 vote, opposed by a handful of small-government Republicans and Democrats concerned by an unrelated provision that would allow trucks carrying hazardous materials to cross the Ambassador Bridge into Detroit.
The House vote ended a week-long negotiation over COVID-19 relief. Talks were complicated by Republican animosity of Whitmer s coronavirus restrictions, including continuation of a ban on indoor restaurant dining, and the pending resignation of state budget director Chris Kolb, who is leaving the administration next month for a job at the University of Michigan.