The legislation needed to extend the sunset on the current funding system for trial courts is on the path to the governor's desk ahead of its May 1 sunset, but the bill that would examine a new mechanism to fund the courts is dead on the House floor, for now.
The leaders of the House Democratic and Republican caucuses are among the many incumbents facing primaries in August, though the level of seriousness will vary widely.
In the lead up to the 2022 general election, Josh Schriver, a virtually unknown young conservative, beat out five other Republican primary contenders before breezing through the general election in his solidly Republican district with 64 percent of the vote.
A lawsuit brought by a group of legislative Republicans about seven months ago in federal court challenging the legality of the recent constitutional amendments passed by voters making sweeping changes to state voting laws was dismissed Wednesday.
House Speaker Joe Tate said on Friday young people and voters at large value President Joe Biden's "institutional knowledge and wisdom," and that he doesn't think the president's age presents a public relations problem for Democrats.
Michigan's House of Representatives will not tolerate racism, Speaker Joe Tate (D-Detroit) said Wednesday.
Two-thirds of the Michigan Senate Republican caucus earlier this month endorsed former President Donald Trump in his bid for returning to the White House.
The most conservative caucus within the House Republicans has seen a parting of ways, but the separation has less to do with principles than with strategy.
Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Elections Director Jonathan Brater on Monday asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed last year by a group of Republicans challenging the legality of the recent constitutional amendments passed by voters making sweeping changes to state voting laws.
Democrats took control of state government for the first time in decades in January with Governor Gretchen Whitmer winning reelection and the party taking both the House and Senate.