The Michigan Supreme Court will not yet hear a case challenging Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s emergency powers.
The state’s high court is refusing to take up the Legislature’s case challenging Whitmer’s emergency powers before it is heard by the Michigan Court of Appeals.
The Michigan Court of Claims upheld the governor’s emergency declarations last month, prompting the Republican-led Legislature to ask that the case be taken directly to the state Supreme Court. While Court of Claims Judge Cynthia Stephens upheld the emergency declarations last month, she did say Whitmer overstepped her authority laid out in the Emergency Management Act Of 1976 when she extended her state of emergency without approval from the Legislature.
This means that the Court of Appeals will be the place where the legislature will have its case heard next.
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