I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
In addition to the brilliant selections of Dawn Johnsen and David Barron, Marty Lederman of Georgetown Law School has been nominated to be Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel by President Obama.
From the moment Barack Obama was elected I was rooting for Lederman to be named head of the OLC, where he once worked and about which he has written and spoken so passionately over the last few years in regard to how that vital agency had failed in its role as a safeguard against overreaching executive powers.
But I was thrilled the selections of Johnsen and Barron and now even more pleased that Lederman will be joining them in the important task of restoring the OLC to its proper function. Like Johnsen and Barron, Lederman has been an outspoken and eloquent critic of the Bush administration’s persistent attempts to expand executive power beyond its constitutional limits.
The selection of these three people to lead the resurrection of the OLC is a clear indication that Obama intends to roll back that power grab and return the OLC to the role of objective adviser rather than an agency of legal rationalization to defend the president’s desires.
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