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LANSING, Mich. (WOODTV) — Michigan's GOP-led Legislature has filed suit against Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Wednesday, asking a judge to declare invalid and unenforceable her stay-at-home order and other measures issued to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
Lawmakers, in filing the lawsuit in the court of claims based their legal action on says a 1945 law giving the governor broad emergency powers governs local, not statewide, declarations like one in place since March. A 1976 law gives her emergency authority only for a limited period that expired when the House and Senate did not extend her emergency and disaster declarations last week, according to the suit.
House Speaker Lee Chatfield said at a Capitol news conference Wednesday , “The governor chose to take an unprecedented and unconstitutional action of choosing to go it alone."
Mike Shirkey, Senate Majority Leader said Republicans “believe the governor’s actions leave us little choice but to file a lawsuit and seek clarifications in the courts.”
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