Michigan Gov. Whitmer Being Sued in Federal Court

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A lawsuit has been filed against Michigan Governor GretchenWhitmer,accusing her of violating constitutional rights in an executive order to help stop the spread of thecoronavirus.

Law firm Butzel Long filed the suit on behalf of five local businesses, suggestingWhitmer's "Stay Home, Stay Safe" order,which isdue to end on May 15, was based on "speculative modeling" on the infectiousness andlethalityofCOVID-19.

"GovernorWhitmerhas issued executive orders that have shuttered civil society, placed 10 million people under house arrest, and taken jobs away from nearly 1.2 million people, all without due process of law," the lawsuit states.

"The Governor has not disclosed the data or methodology used to create the modeling that purportedly justifies this extreme action."

Among the businesses named in the suit are Sotheby's International Realty, a Michigan-based residential brokerage; Executive Property Maintenance (EPM), which provides commercial, municipal and residential clients with lawn, snow and ice maintenance and other landscaping services; andIntracoCorporation, which exports architectural and automotive glass, automotive chemicals and other goods.

The other two businesses areCasiteIntraco, a wholly-owned subsidiary ofIntracothat exports engine oil and car products, andHillsdaleJewelers, a fully closed business that has seen all three of its workers become unemployed as a result ofWhitmer's order.

The suit accusesWhitmerof preventing assessments on whether it is justifiable tolock downthe entire state to help prevent further spread of the outbreak by suspending the Freedom of Information Act through to June 4.

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The plaintiffs also hope to "define the limits" of state police power by bringing forward the suit.

"Whatever its limits, this legal term of art is not some shibboleth that unlocks absolute executive power and casts our Constitution to the wind. The issues raised in this Complaint are novel, and they will not be rendered moot if the executive order is lifted before the Court issues judgment," the statement reads.

"The issues presented are capable of repetition and are of such importance that they cannot evade judicial review."

The suit adds: "GovernorWhitmer's executive orders are unprecedented. For the first time in our State's history—indeed, in our nation's history—the State government is mass quarantining healthy people instead of the sick.

"As a free people, we have the unalienable right to pursue happiness, which includes the freedom to make our own choices about our safety and welfare without unconstitutional interference. In the face of thecoronavirus, it means the freedom to choose whether to stay at home, or to keep calm and carry on with the things that make life worth living."

The suit is demanding a trial by jury. Robert Gordon, Michigan's director of the Department of Health and Human Services, is also named in the suit.

A similar lawsuit accusingWhitmerof infringing individuals' constitutional rightswas alsofiled against the governor earlier this month on behalf of four Michigan residents.

The plaintiffs were seeking damages, as well as demanding the restrictions in the state be liftedor amended.

"My clients are not saying that there is not a pandemic or that the government does not have some obligation to do something in response," Attorney David Helm, who filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Detroit, toldNewsweek.

"My clients are further not looking to cash-in on the crisis as some have alleged. They simply want to see the Governor's restrictions lifted.

"Our position is simply that when the government takes some necessary action which infringes on individual constitutional rights, they must tread lightly and take the least restrictive approach."

Whitmer's office has been contacted for comment.

There are more than 37,100 confirmed cases ofCOVID-19 in Michigan, with at least 3,400 deaths according to Johns Hopkins University. In total, 115,936 people have managed to recover from the virus across the U.S.

This infographic, provided byStatista, shows the number of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. as of April 28.

lol

How are they allowed to suspend FOIA?

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were rats o_o

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NOOOOOO NOT THE HECKIN MILKERINOOOS!!! NOT THE MOTORO-GOLFCARTERINOS!!!!

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all the orders will be lifted as these cases advance through the courts and high courts will dismiss them because theyre pussies who refuse to set precedent with moot cases

do people have a right to know?

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Finally someone had the balls to challenge this. Hopefully more companies line up to take their shot. If you're an American this is the perfect time to sue the government and make out like a bandit.

she probably has a lot of authority in an emergency

She needs to be hanged not tried.

The verdict? BASED.

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Somebody in my area is planning the sue the local executives if they don't lift the orders after this weekend.

Shit's going to get interesting.

seems strange. you can't keep people at home but you can keep them in the dark about what's happening to them.

Friendly reminder - The first governor, Governor Newsom, to declare lockdown is functionally illiterate.
>His dyslexia has made it difficult for him to write, spell, read and work with numbers.[12]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Newsom

>Visual aids help. Newsom does not use a teleprompter during his briefings, in part because he suffers from dyslexia, a learning disorder that makes reading difficult. It takes an hour of preparation for every minute of a prepared speech he gives. He occasionally uses notes at the rostrum during his more free-wheeling briefings.
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Detroit fag here

Niggers do not give a single fuck about this city. Nothing can happen while they still live here. They are a parasite

This bitch inadvertently secured Michigan as a win for Trump in the 2020 “election”

the lockdown and social distancing worked.
what does achieve?

this isnt an emergency and if it was the state actions still need to pass the least restrictive means test. these state wide orders that ignore science and common sense fail the test miserably.

she needs to be tried, convicted, and then hanged. we live in a society.

are you a pro lifer?

Throw fascists who enforce lockdown in jail. Freedom now.

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will it be an emergency if there is a second wave?

if it worked we'd be opening up two weeks ago. this fake virus supposedly incubates for less than 3 weeks and most of the country has been locked down for 6 weeks. government officials over reacted and painted themselves into a corner. this would all go away overnight if theyd only admit they were wrong.

how will the 1% force people to work if you give people enough to live off of?

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yes, abortions should be prosecuted as murder. if thots can convince a jury the child needed to die then so be it.

If you value science, the assertion that the lockdown worked and social distancing worked is unverifibale, thus it cannot be used as proof according to the scientific method.

I guess we'll see

no. 2nd wave will also be a hoax

they already convinced the scotus

Oh sweet summer child

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>Whitmer Being Sued in Federal Court

good. she's a fucking idiot.

every serious legal scholar acknowledges roe was a flawed decision and should be overturned. if conservatives ever get 6 votes it will be.

the protests were the hoax

I've been talking about this since all of this started. Expect MANY MANY more suits like this filed against local governments.

They should all fucking hang.

ain't shit gonna happen

its all perfectly fucking legal

this will go to the supreme court

so you actually want the government involved in 1/2 the population's personal lives?

Which part is legal?

what's good for the goose is good for the gander

the all part

(((You)))

I want the murder of innocent humans to be investigated and prosecuted.

>egregiously violating rights that even the masses care about is legal
Listen, you nannystate fuck, this is going to be the beginning of the end for almost every unconsitutional law on the books. If you don't like it, go back to europe, where they already have your idiotic policy in place.

you want funerals for miscarriages?

There is no such thing as a personal life, liberal. Your actions affect all around you, even minor actions.
Ideally you could trust people to be responsible with their actions and try to consider others, but if they don't then you have to - and are justified to - forcefully constrain them.

I thing I am sure of, the right never sees the consequences of getting what they want

>constitutionally illiterate MIGAtards can't into police powers and the 10th amendment