Michigan LGBT Policy May Get Backstop From New State AG

If at first you don’t succeed, perhaps try a new attorney general.

Michigan’s Civil Rights Commission will vote Jan. 28 on whether to seek a formal opinion from Attorney General Dana Nessel (D) on its position that state law prohibits LGBT discrimination.

If the agency does seek her input, Nessle would have the opportunity to reverse the opinion of her predecessor, Bill Schuette (R), who said last year that the commission’s 2018 reinterpretation of the state’s civil rights law was illegal.

A new opinion from Nessel could potentially shore up the legal basis for the agency’s landmark reinterpretation of the ...