Tag Archives: Michigan

The Detroit News reports: A group of Michigan Republicans voted Saturday afternoon in Oakland County to remove Kristina Karamo as chairwoman of the party, but Karamo has said she won’t recognize their meeting. A video from inside the meeting, which wasn’t open to the media, showed the Republicans who had gathered cheering once it was announced that Karamo had been …

Bridge Michigan reports: The Michigan Republican Party, under embattled Chair Kristina Karamo, is considering a plan that would effectively end primary elections by authorizing party insiders to select nominees for most political offices. The “Better Political Representation” motion, slated for a potential state committee vote at a Jan. 13 meeting called by Karamo, was announced Saturday in a video that …

Click On Detroit reports: Members of the Michigan Republican Party are scheduled to meet this weekend in an attempt to remove party Chairwoman Kristina Karamo as a major election year gets underway. The move to oust Karamo, an election conspiracist who pushed former President Donald Trump’s “big lie” of election fraud, comes less than a year after she was selected …

The New York Times reports: James Renner is thus far the only Trump elector who has reached an agreement with the office of Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, which brought criminal charges in July against all 16 of the state’s fake Trump electors. In October, Ms. Nessel’s office dropped all charges against Mr. Renner after he agreed to cooperate. “I …

CNN reports: The Michigan Supreme Court has rejected an attempt to remove former President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot based on the US Constitution’s “insurrectionist ban.” The outcome contrasts with the recent ruling from the Colorado Supreme Court, which kicked Trump off its primary ballot because of his role in the January 6 Capitol riot. Read the full article. …

CNN reports: Kristina Karamo – a former community college professor with limited political experience – became the head of the state party in February after pushing far-right election conspiracy theories and promising to end the party’s reliance on traditional wealthy donors. Now, some of the pro-Trump party members who voted Karamo into office have soured on her leadership and accuse …

Newsweek reports: The chair of the Republican National Committee, Ronna McDaniel, has been pulled into Donald Trump’s legal quagmire after a report claimed she was involved in efforts to pressure Michigan election officials to challenge the result of the 2020 election. Trump personally pressured two Republican members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers, Monica Palmer and William Hartmann, not …

The Detroit News reports: Then-President Donald Trump personally pressured two Republican members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers not to sign the certification of the 2020 presidential election, according to recordings reviewed by The Detroit News and revealed publicly for the first time. On a Nov. 17, 2020, phone call, which also involved Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, …

The Detroit News reports: The teen who killed four people at Oxford High School on Nov. 30, 2021 was sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole Friday. After a wrenching day of emotional statements from victims touched by the Nov. 30, 2021 Oxford High School shooting, the shooter told an Oakland County judge he has done terrible …

CBS News reports: A draft of an upcoming report alleges the Michigan GOP is more than a half million dollars in debt. “Confirmed hard factual debt that we have on the books right now is somewhere in the neighborhood of $620,000,” said Warren Carpenter, who commissioned the report given to CBS News Detroit. “We estimate that to be around $150,000 …

Michigan Live reports: Michigan Republican Party chair Kristina Karamo could be in trouble. There’s a growing likelihood Karamo could be removed as chair of the party less than a year into her tenure after a majority of the party’s state committee skipped a Saturday meeting she convened to attend one organized by a group of discontented party leaders. With only …

The Midland Daily News reports: Living Word International Church minister James Randolph was arrested and charged Tuesday with first-degree criminal sexual conduct involving relationship, four counts of second-degree CSC and one count of accosting children for immoral purposes for crimes allegedly occurring in 2011. Randolph is charged with seven felony counts and is out of jail on a $500,000 cash …

McClatchy reports: A salon owner in Michigan banned certain LGBTQ customers, referring them to pet groomers instead, officials said. Now, the establishment faces a discrimination charge. “If a human identifies as anything other than a man/woman, please seek services at a local pet groomer,” Christine Geiger, the owner of Studio 8 Hair Lab, LLC, wrote on Facebook in July. “You …

The Associated Press reports: Attorneys for a group of Michigan activists are asking the state Supreme Court to hear an appeal of a lower court’s ruling that would allow former President Donald Trump’s name on the state’s presidential primary ballot. Filings late Thursday afternoon seek an “immediate and expedited consideration” for appeal and an “emergency application” to bypass the state …

Bridge Michigan reports: A private investigator retained by Stefanie Lambert and Matt DePerno [photo] later cooperated with authorities and testified before a grand jury that indicted the pair for their role in an alleged voting machine tampering scheme, according to new court records. Recent disclosures in the high-profile case also reveal a secret informant shared additional information with Special Prosecutor …

The Detroit News reports: Michigan U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee, a Flint-area Democrat whose family has represented Michigan in Congress since 1977, said Thursday he won’t seek reelection to the U.S. House of Representatives. His retirement after six terms will present an opening for House Republicans to try to flip his highly competitive seat in Michigan’s 8th District that covers Genesee, …

Click On Detroit reports: A man serving as a youth leader at a Macomb County church has been charged with criminal sexual conduct due to alleged sexual contact with a minor who attends his church. Clinton Township man Luis Mendoza, 29, was arraigned Wednesday, Nov. 15 on multiple counts of criminal sex conduct, the Macomb County Prosecutor’s Office reports. Mendoza, …

The Detroit News reports: A Michigan judge ruled Tuesday that former President Donald Trump’s name can appear on primary ballots, saying it would be inappropriate to intervene and deem Trump ineligible. Michigan Court of Claims Judge James Robert Redford ultimately declined on Tuesday to bar Trump from getting a spot on the Feb. 27 primary ballot and refused to order …

The Detroit Free Press reports: After two years of fighting on a united front, James and Jennifer Crumbley are asking for separate trials in their historic case involving the Oxford school shooting carried out by their son. In new court filings, lawyers for the Crumbleys asked the judge to “sever” the couple’s upcoming trial on involuntary manslaughter charges, maintaining that …

The Washington Post reports: In Arizona, the state GOP chairman has been begging the Republican National Committee for a financial bailout. Michigan party officials have gotten into physical fights as their finances have dipped into the red. And in Georgia, the state party is in a standoff with the Republican governor and saddled with legal fees for alternate electors put …