One of the key questions will be which side Judge Michael Gadola expects will prevail in the end.
Michigan House Republicans want the judge to order a 14-day halt to spending 645 million dollars that was already approved in the state budget for a variety of programs. That money was pulled from the budget via a unilateral action by the GOP-controlled House Appropriations Committee.
Democratic state Attorney General Dana Nessel held in a formal, binding legal opinion that process violated the Michigan Constitution because it did not include the Senate or Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
That re-opened the door for the funding to these programs to continue. The GOP says Nessel’s opinion is wrong and politically motivated.
