by: WOODTV.com staff
Posted:May 15, 2020 / 05:55 AM EDT/Updated:May 15, 2020 / 01:53 PM EDT
LANSING, Mich. (WOOD) — A judge with the Michigan Court of Claims on Friday morning heard arguments on the Republican-led Legislature’s lawsuit against Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer regarding her response to the state’s coronavirus outbreak.
Michigan Republicans, who control both chambers of the Legislature, want the court to declare Whitmer’s stay-at-home and other executive orders aimed at slowing the spread of the virus “invalid and unenforceable,”arguing the Governor has overstepped the bounds of her authority by extending the emergency response without lawmakers’ approval.
Michael Williams, an attorney for the State GOP, said during the virtual proceedings, “This case is instead about a question of whether a governor, this governor or any governor in the future, can exercise effectively limitless, unilateral, temporally-unbounded authority."
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