Posted on 08/17/2020 12:13:20 PM PDT by be-baw
The governor then carried out a slow, cautious reopening by keeping many of her stay-at-home orders in place through late May. Most recently—over loud braying and protests from the state’s conservatives—Whitmer put in place orders that require masks in public spaces and prohibit high-risk businesses like gyms and bars from fully reopening.
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Naturally, Michigan’s Republican Party wants to put a stop to that.
Michigan Republicans are now attempting to execute a plan to strip Whitmer of her emergency order powers—and unilaterally end the protections she has put in place against the pandemic—by exploiting their favorite state constitutional loophole. That mechanism had been obscure until the past couple of years, when Michigan Republicans used it to kill a popular minimum wage increase, kill the state’s popular prevailing wage law, and attempt to push through extreme abortion limits.
The loophole allows GOP legislators to partner with conservative activists and residents to enact veto-proof legislation that only needs about 340,000 petition signatures to become provisional law.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
I would read the whole article but I have to get back to digging ditches for the next 100 corpses. It never stops.
The dead are lining the streets here. I put potted plants on top of them to make them look more attractive
when dems/media like something - clever, tactic, strategy, its the law
when they dont its a loophole
And this one is particularly pernicious. It is a constitutional loophole.
It’s called “separation of powers” and “checks and balances”.
But who studies Civics anymore??
They misplaced "unilaterally."
So... anyone was expecting Slate to do journalism rather than propaganda?
It’s not a sneak attack. They are pretty open about what they are doing.
And this one is particularly pernicious. It is a constitutional loophole.
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Them’s the worst!
I think the Unlock Michigan petition is going well.
The woman is a combo of Uriah Heep and Pee Wee Hermann.
Not fit to govern, let alone do a comedy show.......
How dare the sneaky, loopholey Republicans try to employ a democratic process in order to counter the governor’s rule by executive fiat!
That caught my eye as well. Three hundred forty thousand signatures are ‘unilateral’ but Whitmer ordering something on her own isn’t.
Don’t bother with potted plants, NYC is dead too.
Read that right here on FreeRepublic.
As a Michigander, I want to know where I can go to sign.
That’s older vid, from the riots, I believe.
Still a lot boarded up and many offices closed. Probably permanently, or at least until the Commie Clowns are gone.
“Three hundred forty thousand signatures are ‘unilateral’ but Whitmer ordering something on her own isn’t.”
So simple, but the sorry liars only see one side.
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