Being our semi-regular weekly survey of what’s goin’ down in the several states where, as we know, the real work of ...

A House lawmaker says she will shift funding away from courts and to local prosecutors after a controversial Michigan Supreme ...

A Michigan Supreme Court decision last week ruled that people aged 19 or 20 years old sentenced for first-degree murder must ...

President Trump is threatening to remove Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Whether such a move is legal could soon be ...

The Michigan Supreme Court has handed down a landmark ruling regarding murderers under the age of 21, stating that they can ...

The Supreme Court, in a 5-2 opinion, said mandatory life sentences for people who were 19 and 20 at the time of the crime violate a ban against "cruel or unusual punishment" in the Michigan ...

Nineteen and 20-year-olds who commit first-degree murder cannot automatically be sentenced to life in prison, the Michigan ...

The decision applies retroactively ... “What we see the Michigan Supreme Court doing is recognizing that 19- and 20-year-olds have brains that are still developing, which means that they ...

The Michigan Supreme Court ruled that mandatory life sentences without parole for 19- and 20-year-old murderers are unconstitutional. The court's decision expands a 2022 ruling that banned such ...

A new Michigan Supreme Court decision means police can no longer conduct a search because of the smell of marijuana alone.