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.
The case of four Michigan conservative activists challenging the federal hate crimes act has gotten the support of a U.S. Congressman. U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) has sent a letter to Gary Glenn, president of the American Family Association of Michigan; as well as his co-plaintiffs in the federal case pastors Levon Yuille, Rene Ouellette [...]
Rep. Pete Hoekstra has an op-ed piece in the Detroit Free Press — it’s really little more than a campaign press release full of talking points — that contains at least one clearly false statement. In that op-ed, Hoekstra criticizes the Obama administration for not doing enough to stop terrorism, including this criticism:
Public defender systems around the nation are not in good shape, but Michigan’s system is so underfunded and unguided that one study earlier this year called it a “constitutional crisis.” Michigan’s cases of failed public legal representation are so shocking that they caught the attention of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. In a speech to [...]
The U.S. Department of Justice is expected to send a three page memo to federal prosecutors outlining Attorney General Eric Holder’s views on how cases involving medical marijuana should be handled. The Associated Press reports the memo will be sent to federal prosecutors in 14 states which have medical marijuana laws — including Michigan — [...]
In the wake of a decision by Attorney General Eric Holder to allow an already-appointed special prosecutor to conduct a “preliminary review” of a handful of cases of abusive interrogations by CIA operatives during the Bush administration, Rep. Pete Hoekstra released a statement blasting the administration and accusing it of undermining the nation’s ability to [...]
Rep. John Conyers (D-Detroit), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has written a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder calling for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate and possibly bring charges against former Bush administration officials for ordering the use of torture against detainees.
Kate Klonick, new team member covering the U.S. Department of Justice for our sister site, The Washington Independent, covered the release today of two key reports: • U.S. Department of Justice Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility report, entitled, “An Investigation of Allegations of Politicized Hiring and Other Improper Personnel Actions in the Civil [...]
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