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Flint water shutoffs case heading back to court

By STEVE CARMODY • 12 HOURS AGO

STEVE CARMODY / MICHIGAN RADIO

This week, a judge will hear more arguments over whether the city of Flint may resume shutting off water to delinquent customers.

Last August, Genesee Circuit Judge Archie Hayman  ordered the city to stop disconnecting water customers who didn’t pay their water bills.

 

Former Courser and Gamrat staffers sue the Michigan House of Representatives

Keith Allard and Ben Graham, the two ex-staffers of former Representatives Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat, filed a federal whistleblower lawsuit against the Michigan House of Representatives.

Lawyer says lead poisoning in Flint kids could revive lawsuit against … Sep 27, 2015 … Clean-water activists hope new information about high lead levels in kids could revive a lawsuit against the city of Flint. The attorney for a Flint …

Michigan court dismisses lawsuit over alleged abuse of young … Aug 26, 2015 … The Michigan appeals court has ruled in favor of the state and dismissed a major class-action lawsuit by young prisoners who said guards …

Clio school district responds to lawsuit over guns in schools … Clio school district responds to lawsuit over guns in schools. By Kate Wells • Apr 14, 2015. ShareTwitter Facebook Google+ Email. Credit flickr http://michrad.io/ …

Clio School District files a motion to dismiss open-carry lawsuit … Jul 15, 2015 … Clio Area School District has filled a motion to dismiss a lawsuit challenging its gun policy. The lawsuit was filed by Kenneth Herman and …

Judge dismisses lawsuit aimed at stopping ‘fracking’ in West Michigan Aug 19, 2013 … A judge dismissed a lawsuit seeking to stop any oil and gas drilling on state land in western Michigan. The area in question is Allegan State …

Attorneys discuss a Flint water class action lawsuit | Michigan Radio Nov 16, 2015 … Attorneys are hoping to sign up tens of thousands of Flint water customers for a class action lawsuit against the city and state. The suit was filed …

NWF lawsuit targets Mackinac Straits pipeline | Michigan Radio Jul 28, 2015 … Enbridge is not a target of the lawsuit, but its 62-year-old Line 5 light oil and gas pipe that runs beneath the straits is. Shriberg said NWF …

Federal lawsuit filed in Flint water crisis | Michigan Radio Nov 14, 2015 … The lawsuit singles out 14 state and local officials FOR “reckless” conduct connected to the decision to switch to and stay with the Flint River for …

Lawsuit: Michigan unemployment system wrongly fines claimants … Apr 22, 2015 … “As of this moment, the agency has not seen the lawsuit and is therefore unable to comment on its specifics. The agency developed the new …

What does the DPS lawsuit against Governor Snyder really mean … Aug 6, 2015 … Each week Jennifer White speaks to Susan Demas, publisher of Inside Michigan Politics, and Ken Sikkema, former Senate Majority Leader and …

The New York Times Wants To Ban Assault Rifles And They Are Right.

“I am suggesting that the same situation now exists in the United States as regards the ownership and use of AR-15s.  How many more senseless slaughters are we going to endure while politicians dither around and pretend that they are truly concerned about 2nd Amendment rights?  The Constitution wisely gives government the right to institute comprehensive public health measures when the health of an entire community is put at risk.  If 147 dead and injured human beings in just three assaults with AR rifles doesn’t constitute a risk, then let’s save the taxpayers some money and close down the CDC.”

– Michael R. Weisser, a.k.a. Mike The Gun Guy, is an NRA Life Member, NRA-certified firearms instructor, owner of a retail gun shop and a featured blogger

Source: The New York Times Wants To Ban Assault Rifles And They Are Right.

From “The Nation” magazine… The Real Reason We Can’t Have Gun Control

The paranoid right-wing fringe believes it needs guns to overthrow the government—and even so-called GOP moderates are pandering to them.

By Joan Walsh – Twitter

DECEMBER 3, 2015

It’s crazy, but we have to face the facts: Our prolonged gun control stalemate reflects the far-right’s deep distrust of democracy, and it’s worsened by a party that panders to that paranoid base. Increasingly this right-wing fringe believes it’s going to need its guns to overthrow an illegitimate government—especially the one run by gun-grabbing Barack Obama. They’ve been shrieking that Obama is coming for their guns since before he became president—the NRA mailed its devotees a 10-point guide to the way Obama would eviscerate the Second Amendment in 2008. He did anything but; in his first year he signed a law overturning a ban on loaded and concealed guns in national parks in 2009. He left the issue of gun control alone, only talking about it three times during the 2012 campaign.

The passion for guns has political and cultural roots in our origin as a nation that laudably threw off tyranny—while shamefully killing the people who lived here first, as “settlers” claimed the “frontier.” The continued mania for guns to ward off tyranny, even after we’d overthrown our oppressors and settled the country by any means necessary, is a holdover from the Civil War, when the South violently seceded to protect slavery. There remains a suspicion, in the red states of the South and mountain West, but even in some pockets of blue states, that the elected government isn’t entirely legitimate, and they may have to rely on “Second Amendment remedies,” in Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle’s unforgettable phrase, to overthrow it.

Unbelievably, the conservative majority on the John Roberts Supreme Court went so far as to redefine the Second Amendment to block what had been established efforts by local, state, and federal elected officials to place restrictions on individual gun ownership, in its infamous 2008 Heller decision.

 

Source: The Real Reason We Can’t Have Gun Control | The Nation