Whitmer blames GOP justices for emergency powers decision, stumps for Dem candidates
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer blamed the Friday defeat of her emergency powers on the Michigan Supreme Court's Republican-nominated majority and stumped for Democratic-nominated judicial candidates in a Sunday appearance on CNN's "State of the Union."
Whitmer said the Supreme Court "undermined" her emergency powers "on a slim majority Republican vote," noting it was ironic that the decision came the same day President Donald Trump was admitted to the hospital with coronavirus.
"Michiganders have an opportunity to weigh in on our Supreme Court on this Nov. 3 ballot," Whitmer said. "I'm hoping they elect (Bridget) McCormack and (Elizabeth) Welch because we've got to have justices who do the right thing and follow the rule of law."
The Supreme Court on Friday was unanimous in ruling Whitmer had no authority under a 1976 emergency law to extend the emergency past April 30 without approval from the Legislature.
But the court split 4-3 in ruling that a separate law Whitmer was using to issue executive orders — the 1945 Emergency Powers of the Governor Act — was unconstitutional because it was an unlawful delegation of legislative powers.
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