The question of whether the Department of State should have promulgated official rules for poll watcher guidance published in 2022 to be enforceable, or if labeling that guidance as "instruction" was sufficient, was before the Michigan Supreme Court for oral arguments in a special session held Monday.
Matt DePerno, an attorney who in recent years has become a magnet for both admiration among Republican grassroots delegates and scorn among the state's Democrats, is seeking a partial term on the Michigan Supreme Court.
Elected officials can sue the government body they are elected to represent for civil rights violations, a unanimous Court of Appeals ruled this week.
The Michigan Supreme Court will hold oral arguments in June to hear challenges to a unanimous Court of Appeals ruling that held poll watcher guidance published last year by the Bureau of Elections should have gone through the rule making process.
Former President Donald Trump announced he is backing Court of Appeals Judge Mark Boonstra in the race to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David Viviano.
Michigan has the largest population of individuals serving juvenile life without parole sentences in the country, according to a report by The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth released Tuesday.
The prosecution of a South Haven woman who was stopped and found to have a concealed pistol without a license can move forward because state law prohibiting unlicensed concealed carry doesn't violate the Second and 14th Amendments, a unanimous Court of Appeals panel ruled Thursday.
A local ballot petition to revoke a zoning ordinance did not comply with election law, but a lower court did not err when it granted summary disposition to a township that approved the measure over the company that was challenging it, a unanimous Court of Appeals panel ruled Thursday.
Kent County Clerk Lisa Posthumus Lyons will appeal a Thursday decision from the Court of Appeals reversing the lower court's bindover of an election worker who copied the August 2022 voter roll to a personal flash drive following the primary election.
Romulus attorney Alexandria Taylor announced Thursday she has removed herself from the crowded Republican U.S. Senate primary and instead will be running for the open Michigan Supreme Court seat.