Lawsuit seeks injunction on Emergency Manager law ‘This is not democracy, this is dictatorship'

[defendandprotect]

Lawsuit seeks injunction on Emergency Manager law

‘This is not democracy, this is dictatorship'
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In a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Ingham County court, citizens from across the state are asking that Michigan’s Emergency Manager law be declared unconstitutional.

The Local Government and School District Fiscal Accountability Act allows the governor to appoint Emergency Managers to take over local units of government, fire elected officials, sell off or privatize community assets and even dissolve whole cities.

The measure was rushed through the Republican-controlled legislature this spring as a move to protect against widespread municipal bankruptcies, with some of its supporters referring to it as “financial martial law.”

But in legal arguments filed in court this morning a group of 25 plaintiffs say the right of citizens to elect their local officials is guaranteed in the state Constitution and financial stress is not a legitimate ground for scrapping the democratic process.

http://michiganmessenger.com/50121/lawsuit-seeks-injunction-on-emergency-manager-law


Heard about his on Schultz radio a quite a few weeks ago -- months?

Note also the additional info to the left explaining what's going on --

The Emergency Manager law from A to Z


Yikes!

[Canuckistanian]

1. There should have been an IMMEDIATE Consitiutional challenge to this

It's utter disenfranchisement of the electoral system. This IS how dictators seize power.

[WinkyDink]

2. It is the very definition of "tyranny."

[ProgressiveProfessor]

3. Wonder why this was not when the original EFM law was passed 20 YEARS AGO