Michigan Lawmakers Denied Ability to Bring Elections Challenge

Eleven Republican lawmakers in Michigan can’t press forward with their lawsuit challenging voter-passed state constitutional changes because they lack such a legal ability to file such a suit as individual legislators, the Sixth Circuit said Friday.

Federal case law has few exceptions to the general rule that legislators can’t challenge laws that may diminish their power, the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit said. And in this case, the nine state representatives and two state senators who filed suit don’t make up or speak for the Legislature as a whole, and therefore “fall within the general rule, not ...