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  • An appeals court dismisses charges against a Michigan election worker who downloaded a voter list

    April 22, 2024

    GRAND RAPIDS (AP) — An appeals court dismissed charges against a Michigan election worker who put a USB flash drive into an electronic poll book and downloaded the names of voters at the close of a primary election in 2022.
    The court's conclusion: James Holkeboer's conduct was improper but not a crime.

  • Supreme Court denies rehearing request by attorneys sanctioned for meritless election lawsuit

    April 22, 2024

    The U.S. Supreme Court last week denied a rehearing request for Sidney Powell and several other attorneys seeking to overturn sanctions imposed against them for filing a meritless challenge to the November 2020 presidential election. The Supreme Court previously denied petitions for certiorari filed by the attorneys in February.

  • Nessel testifies in support of BRITE Act

    April 22, 2024

    Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, along with Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, testified last week before the House Ethics and Oversight Committee in support of the Bringing Reforms in Integrity, Transparency and Ethics (BRITE) Act, a package of bills to increase disclosure requirements for shadowy political funds, slow the revolving door of legislators-turned-lobbyists, and expand gift disclosures for elected officials.

  • A lab chief's sentencing for meningitis deaths is postponed, extending grief of victims' families

    April 22, 2024

    HOWELL (AP) — A Michigan judge last week suddenly postponed the sentencing of a man at the center of a fatal meningitis outbreak that hit multiple states, dismaying people who were poised to speak about their grief 12 years after the tragedy.
    The judge who took a no-contest plea from Barry Cadden retired in March. But the defense attorney and the prosecutor said they still expected Michael Hatty would return to impose a minimum 10-year prison sentence for involuntary manslaughter.

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