Michigan Constitution

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is asking a judge to reconsider an earlier ruling regarding abortion rights and strike down a law that requires abortion care clinics to screen patients on whether they are being pressured to end a pregnancy. Rick Pluta has more.

Same-sex marriage is still banned in Michigan’s State Constitution and would become de jure law if the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its 2015 ruling that legalized the practice. WEMU’s Ana Longoria has a local perspective on the matter.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed bills Wednesday to give state officials another month to file financial disclosure reports as the state tries to fix its filing website. Otherwise, the deadline would be today. Rick Pluta reports.

A Michigan Court of Claims judge has struck down many abortion restrictions in state law. Judge Sima Patel says the laws are unconstitutional violations of the voter-approved reproductive rights amendment to the state constitution. We have more from Rick Pluta.

The Michigan Supreme Court ruled Thursday that mandatory life-without-parole sentences for 19- and-20-year-old defendants violate the state Constitution. We have more from Rick Pluta.

Michigan House Republicans are looking to change how the state chooses a superintendent for its Board of Education. WEMU’s Ana Longoria has the details.

A frozen embryo is the center of a custody battle between a divorced couple that will play out today in arguments before the Michigan Supreme Court. We have more from Rick Pluta.

A group of Republican state legislators is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to let them challenge two voter-approved amendments to the Michigan Constitution. We have more from Rick Pluta.

Saturday is the 11-year wedding anniversary for more than 300 gay and lesbian couples who were married in Michigan following a landmark court decision. The evening before, a federal judge in Detroit ruled Michigan’s same-sex marriage ban violated the U.S. Constitution’s equal protection clause. The decision sent hundreds of couples dashing to clergy and courthouses to get married while they could. We have more from Rick Pluta.

A Democratic state lawmaker has sponsored a proposal to strike the language of the dormant same-sex marriage ban from the Michigan Constitution. We have more from Rick Pluta.