Tag Archives: Michigan

Trump Preemptively Sues MI To Keep Name On Ballot

Axios reports: Former President Trump filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to bar Michigan’s top elections official from booting his name off the state’s ballot for the 2024 presidential elections. The suit asks the court to affirm that Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) lacks the authority to assess his qualifications, including regarding the 14th Amendment argument at the center …

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College Suspends Staffer Behind Hitler Trivia Question

The Associated Press reports: Michigan State athletic director Alan Haller said he has suspended an employee involved in allowing Adolf Hitler’s image to be shown on videoboards before playing No. 2 Michigan. The employee, who was not named, will be paid pending an investigation that will help to determine potential action in the future. Haller said no one in the …

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College Sorry For Hitler Trivia Question On Scoreboard

Michigan Live reports: Michigan State is apologizing after an image of Adolf Hitler appeared on a Spartan Stadium video board Saturday night prior to its game against Michigan. Multiple images circulating on social media on Saturday show an image of the Nazi leader’s face on the stadium’s largest scoreboard, alongside a trivia question answer about his birthplace. Michigan State said …

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Michigan Fake Elector Flips, Will Tattle On Everybody

The Associated Press reports: A Michigan Republican accused of participating in a fake elector plot had all criminal charges dropped Thursday after he and the state Attorney General’s office reached a cooperation deal. James Renner was one of 16 Republicans who acted as false electors for then-President Donald Trump in 2020, according to charges announced in July by Michigan Attorney …

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Cultist MI Gov Candidate Gets 60 Days On Riot Charges

NBC News reports: A former Republican candidate for Michigan governor was sentenced Tuesday to 60 days in prison for committing a federal crime during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Ryan Kelley, who was arrested during the Michigan gubernatorial primary in 2022, pleaded guilty this July to a misdemeanor count of entering and remaining on restricted grounds, admitting …

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Former MI Catholic Priest Guilty In Child Sex Sting

Kalamazoo’s CBS affiliate reports: A former Michigan priest arrested by authorities who posed as a 15-year-old boy on the dating app Grindr has been convicted. Aaron Nowicki, 49, was convicted of child sexually abusive activity on Thursday, according to a news release from Chippewa County Prosecutor Robert L. Stratton. Nowicki resigned from priestly ministry in Jan. 2019 after it was …

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MI GOP Sues To Roll Back Early And Absentee Voting

The Michigan Advance reports: A lawsuit filed by nearly a dozen Michigan Republican lawmakers seeks to roll back voting rights measures passed by voters in 2018 and 2022. The suit, filed Thursday in the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan, was brought by 11 Republican lawmakers. Proposal 3 of 2018 and Proposal 2 of 2022 both …

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Disarray: Michigan GOP In “Dire Financial Situation”

The Detroit News reports: The Michigan Republican Party had about $35,000 in its bank accounts in August, according to internal records that flash new warning signs about the dire state of the GOP’s finances and raise questions about whether the organization is complying with campaign finance laws. The documents, obtained by The Detroit News, cover from February when party Chairwoman …

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Lawsuit Seeks To Bar Trump From Michigan 2024 Ballot

Michigan Live reports: Former President Donald Trump should be ineligible to appear on either of Michigan’s 2024 ballots due to his involvement with the Jan. 6 attack on the United States Capitol, according to a lawsuit filed in the Michigan Court of Claims Friday. The suit hinges on the concept that Trump, during his 2020 re-election campaign – and afterwards, …

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TODAY: Biden To Join MI Autoworkers On Picket Line

The Guardian reports: Joe Biden will make a rare presidential appearance on a picket line in Michigan on Tuesday to show solidarity with striking members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union locked in an escalating dispute with America’s three biggest carmakers. Biden will offer his backing to strikers at a plant in the Detroit area as part of an …

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Secs Of State Resist Push To Block Trump From Ballot

Axios reports: Activists’ push to block Donald Trump from being on the presidential ballot in several states hasn’t gained traction, as state elections officials have been reluctant to act without courts weighing in first. “We’re not the eligibility police. We are responsible for ensuring that basic facts are met to get someone on the ballot,” Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn …

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Pete Buttigieg Completes Michigan Ironman Triathlon

Politico reports: Buttigieg is no stranger to endurance sports (such as running in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary). He’s finished a number of half marathons, notching a personal best of 1:42 in Bagram, Afghanistan, when he was deployed as a Navy counterintelligence officer — nailing an average pace of 7:46 per mile. In D.C., he has been spotted at open-water …

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Christian Youth Center Worker Charged With Child Sex

Michigan’s WTVB radio station reports: Coldwater man has been charged with two counts of fourth degree criminal sexual conduct by Branch County Prosecuting Attorney Zach Stempien as the result of alleged sexual contact with a minor female on or about September 1, 2017. 30-year-old Daniel McFeters was scheduled to be arraigned on Wednesday in Branch County District Court. McFeters was …

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Michigan Fake Elector Conspired With Trump Lawyers

CNN reports: One of the fake electors put forward by Republicans in Michigan said in December 2020 that the plan to use a slate of fake electors to help Donald Trump win their state came together following conversations with “some very incredible constitutional attorneys” from the Trump campaign. In a December 2020 radio interview reviewed by CNN’s KFile, Meshawn Maddock, …

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Former GOP Rep Launches Michigan US Senate Bid

Roll Call reports: Former House Intelligence Chairman Mike Rogers announced Wednesday that he is running for Michigan’s open Senate seat, becoming the first prominent Republican in the race. Rogers, who served seven terms in the House, was first elected to Congress in 2000, winning the seat vacated when Democrat Debbie Stabenow decided to run for the Senate. Rogers now hopes …

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Sunday School Teacher Gets 50 Years For Molestation

Michigan’s Hillsdale Daily News reports: A Jonesville man who fled to the Philippines to avoid prosecution on dozens of child sex abuse charges last summer has been sentenced to 50 years in federal prison. The Hillsdale County Prosecutor’s Office turned over a number of criminal allegations to the U.S. District Court when it was discovered Tye Braxton Stiger, 37, fled …

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Mother Charged For Lying About Buying Guns For Son Who Threatened Michigan Gov, Joe Biden, And LGBTQs

The Associated Press reports: The mother of a 30-year-old Michigan man who’s accused of making death threats against Democratic politicians is now charged with lying when she purchased firearms later found in her son’s possession. Threats against public officials have become increasingly common in Michigan in recent years. A plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer [photo] was broken up by …

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AZ “Fraudit” CEO Seeks To Keep Text Messages Secret

The Arizona Republic reports: Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan is trying to keep secret more than 1,600 texts he exchanged with a Michigan lawyer who was indicted on charges of illegally accessing voting machines as part of a plot to overturn 2020 election results. Logan sent and received nearly 2,400 texts with Stefanie Lambert, more than any other person he …

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MI Youth Pastor Gets 25-40 Years On Child Sex Charges

Michigan Live reports: Convicted of sexually assaulting children in the mid-1990s, former church group leader Michael Baxter will be 73 years old when he will be eligible for parole from prison. Jackson County Circuit Judge Thomas Wilson sentenced Baxter, 48, to serve 25 to 40 years in prison Thursday, Aug. 3, before a court packed with victims and their family …

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Kraken Lawyer Charged With Voting Machine Tampering

The Associated Press reports: A Michigan attorney involved in multiple efforts around the country to overturn the 2020 election in support of former President Donald Trump has been charged in connection with accessing and tampering with voting machines in Michigan, prosecutors announced Thursday. The charges against Stefanie Lambert come days after Matthew DePerno, a Republican lawyer whom Trump endorsed in …

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