A Michigan Court of Claims judge will hear arguments today on disputed spending in the state budget that legislative Republicans want stopped.
One of the key questions will be which side Judge Michael Gadola expects will prevail in the end.
Michigan House Republicans want the judge to order a 14-day halt to spending $645 million that was already approved in the state budget for a variety of programs. That money was pulled from the budget via a unilateral action by the GOP-controlled House Appropriations Committee.
Democratic state Attorney General Dana Nessel held in a formal, binding legal opinion that process violated the Michigan Constitution because it did not include the Senate or Governor Gretchen Whitmer. That re-opened the door for the
funding to these programs to continue.
The GOP says Nessel’s opinion is wrong and politically motivated
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