{"id":5169,"date":"2022-09-08T17:00:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T23:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=5169"},"modified":"2022-09-08T17:00:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T23:00:27","slug":"good-news-from-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=5169","title":{"rendered":"Good news from Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=5142\">an earlier post<\/a> I pointed out that Michigan&#8217;s state legislature had intervened against the will of the electorate and refused to allow abortion rights to be enshrined in the state. Today the Lege was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/09\/08\/biden-coronavirus-vaccines-bannon-surrender\/#link-IUQEVWVKCZD7LFZB3SWHUZAQS4\">overruled<\/a> by the state Supreme Court and the measure will be on the ballot after all.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Michigan Supreme Court in a 5-2 decision ordered the Reproductive Freedom For All measure placed on the ballot after the Board of State Canvassers deadlocked. This measure will enshrine abortion rights into the state\u2019s Constitution (irrevocable by SCOTUS OR Congress).<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andrew Wortman &#x1f3f3;&#xfe0f;&#x200d;&#x1f308;&#x1f1fa;&#x1f1f8; (@AmoneyResists) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmoneyResists\/status\/1567988098943836160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not over yet, as there needs to be a final vote, but at least it seems like the voters will have their say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an earlier post I pointed out that Michigan&#8217;s state legislature had intervened against the will of the electorate and refused to allow abortion rights to be enshrined in the state. Today the Lege was overruled by the state Supreme Court and the measure will be on the ballot after all. BREAKING: Michigan Supreme Court in a 5-2 decision ordered the Reproductive Freedom For All measure placed on the ballot after the Board of State Canvassers deadlocked. This measure will enshrine abortion rights into the state\u2019s Constitution (irrevocable by SCOTUS OR Congress). &mdash; Andrew Wortman &#x1f3f3;&#xfe0f;&#x200d;&#x1f308;&#x1f1fa;&#x1f1f8; (@AmoneyResists) September 8, 2022 <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=5169\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[290,32,51,35,6],"tags":[193,96],"class_list":["post-5169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-civil-rights","category-elections-2","category-republicans","category-voting","tag-abortion","tag-voting-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p13tCM-1ln","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5170,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169\/revisions\/5170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}