Line 5 Update
I am extremely happy to read in today's LSJ the the Michigan Attorney General has declared the lame duck law passed regarding the new bridge authority unconstitutional. Here's the key language: Nessel, a Democrat, said Public Act 359 of 2018 violates a state constitutional requirement that each bill must have a single purpose, described in its title, and that no bill should be amended after its introduction to change its original purpose. Republican lawmakers were rushing to pass the tunnel legislation during the lame-duck session and their work was complicated by another constitutional requirement that no bill can pass until it has been in each chamber for at least five days. To get around that requirement and save time, lawmakers used a “vehicle bill,” introduced earlier in the Senate and related to the Mackinac Bridge Authority, to create the new Mackinac Straits Corridor Authority. That maneuver, and the resulting complications with the title and purpose of the bill...