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Democrats say Michigan House committee a ‘circus’ after platforming election deniers

DETROIT — After Detroit-area pastor Lorenzo Sewell, an advocate of President Donald Trump, testified this week in the newly renamed Michigan House Election Integrity Committee, Republican and Democratic members of the committee are at odds on their respective visions of fair elections. While Republicans regarded the testimony of Sewell and Detroit-area activist Ramon Jackson, who alleged without proof mass fraud in recent presidential elections, as an important look at Michigan’s election systems, Democrats decried the day as nothing more than a “circus”. Sewell, the pastor ...

Trump’s latest auto tariffs explained: What car buyers should know this year

DETROIT (AP) — President Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs on autos not made in the U.S. and certain auto parts are sending more tremors through an industry already being pummeled by steel and aluminum import duties and on-again, off-again 25% levies on Canada and Mexico. The new tariffs, announced Wednesday, are likely to jack up new vehicle prices and will also impact the used car market. Trump has been itching to tax foreign autos for years. In his first term, he declared auto imports a threat to national security giving him the authority to impose tariffs on them. It’s the latest ...

Former CFPB director joins Nessel in laying out ‘pernicious’ impact of order to close agency

LANSING — Attorney General Dana Nessel warned Monday that Michigan consumers would be left without protections if the administration of President Donald Trump is successful in gutting the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Because court rulings in 1999 and 2007 significantly restricted the state’s ability to defend consumers from deception and price gouging under the Michigan Consumer Protection Act, Nessel said Michigan residents are reliant on the federal investigators at the CFPB. “Unfortunately, my office can now no longer rely upon this once dependable and ...

GOP lawmakers petition U.S. Supreme Court to hear case against Michigan election laws

LANSING — Several Republican lawmakers are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case to deem voter-approved election law changes as unconstitutional, including the creation of an independent citizen-led redistricting commission, as well as same-day voter registration, no-reason absentee voting and nine days of early voting. The effort to challenge changes to voting laws in the Michigan Constitution is being pursued by two Michigan state senators and nine state representatives and has been tossed out of lower courts since the group filed in late 2023 in the United States ...

Teachers union, NAACP set to sue over Trump dismantling of Department of Education

WASHINGTON — A coalition of advocacy and labor groups says it plans to file suit against the Trump administration Monday over its sweeping efforts to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. The National Education Association, NAACP, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Maryland Council 3 and public school parents are set to file a lawsuit asking a court to “immediately halt” the administration’s attempts to shutter the agency, the coalition members said in a statement. President Donald Trump last week directed Education Secretary Linda McMahon ...

Republicans’ $3.1B road funding plan clears the Michigan House

LANSING — The Michigan House gave the greenlight to Republicans’ $3.1 billion road funding plan Wednesday, voting it through the chamber with the support of several Democrats. But there are potholes in House Republicans’ path to getting a longterm solution to road funding into law, an endeavor highly desired and long sought after in Michigan, where infrastructure has long been underfunded as the years bring their wear. Republicans are praising the plan as a means to use existing state dollars towards a roads solution, without levying new taxes, while Democrats are widely ...