2020 Election

The Michigan House has passed legislation that would overhaul expungement laws to make it easier for hundreds of thousands of people to clear their criminal record.

The late Congressman John Conyers' voice played in a recording by his wife Monica at his funeral Monday.

"His motto was always 'Justice, peace, and jobs,' Monica Conyers said.

Last November, voters overwhelmingly voted in favor of proposition 2, Voters Not Politicians. The ballot initiative was directed at curbing partisan gerrymandering, the process of lawmakers redrawing district lines that benefits a certain political party. Lawmakers redraw district lines after every census, which takes place every 10 years. However, Michigan's doing it a little bit differently this time. Instead, 13 randomly-selected residents from Michigan will be responsible for drawing those boundary lines.

In a statewide poll, only 26 percent of voters approved of Gov. Whitmer's job performance in the state. That's 13 points less than President Trump, who voters gave a 39 percent approval rating of.

It’s been more than two years since Brian Banks resigned from the state House to avoid going to the Big House.

State lawmakers are close to ending Michigan's status as one of the few states where 17-year-old offenders are automatically prosecuted as adults. The state Senate overwhelmingly approved bills Wednesday, a day after the House voted. The legislation is expected to soon go to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for her likely signature.

The University of Michigan has been selected to host a presidential debate in 2020. 

The GOP's budget differences with the governor were laid bare Wednesday following Whitmer's veto of 147 items from the legislature's proposed budget. After cutting more than a billion dollars from the proposal, there's chatter in Lansing that that money could be sent back to taxpayers.

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The House Ethics Committee announced Monday it would continue reviewing payments made by Rep. Rashida Tlaib during the 2018 election. On Monday afternoon, the Committee's chairman and ranking member issued a joint release the ethics panel would be extending its review of a "matter regarding Representative Rashida Tlaib," which was initially sent to the ethics office on Aug. 16, 2019. 

Both Haley Stevens and Elissa Slotkin threw their support behind impeachment of Donald Trump following reports he pressured the Ukrainian president for political purposes. Both are rookie Michigan Democrats who flipped Republican seats in 2018. Does support for impeachment hinder their chances in a 2020 reelection campaign?

Amid a growing controversy that President Trump withheld military funding that Congress had allocated for Ukraine, two more Michigan lawmakers have joined a growing chorus of Democratic lawmakers calling for an impeachment inquiry into the President. Elissa Slotkin and Debbie Dingell both made their announcements on Twitter Monday night.