Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel wants to protect illegal immigrants using taxpayer-funded Medicaid, so she’s suing President Donald Trump for exposing them. Nessel joined a coalition of blue states in a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ decision to provide Medicaid data to the Department of Homeland Security tasked with immigration enforcement.
“Dana Nessel is suing to KEEP illegal immigrants on Medicaid,” Sen. Aric Nesbitt, a Lawton Republican running for governor, posted to X. “Looks like she wants to continue her losing streak.” In June, DHHS sent information on non-citizens enrolled in Medicaid in California, Illinois, Washington state and Washington, D.C. to “to ensure that Medicaid benefits are reserved for individuals who are lawfully entitled to receive them,” department spokesman Andrew Nixon told The Associated Press. Data from the House Energy and Commerce Committee on “waste, fraud, and abuse” in Medicaid shows there’s 1.4 million illegal immigrants enrolled, 1.2 million recipients who are ineligible, and 4.8 million able bodied adults choosing not to work.
/1🚨BREAKING — America First Legal just SUED the University of Michigan and the Michigan Law Review Association for illegal racial discrimination. pic.twitter.com/rOI6iTfWJf
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) June 19, 2025
The University of Michigan is facing a federal lawsuit alleging its law school publication discriminates against straight white men. Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences filed the federal antidiscrimination lawsuit on Wednesday in the Eastern District of Michigan against the Michigan Law Review and its editors, as well as the university and its Board of Regents, MLive reports.
The voluntary membership organization contends the law review uses a “holistic review” process that prioritizes women, minorities, gay, lesbian or transgender students over straight white and Asian men with better writing scores and grades.
The lawsuit is backed by America First Legal, a nonprofit legal firm founded by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, which argues the “anti-American scheme corrupts legal education and undermines equal justice under the law.”
“No American should ever face discrimination based on their race. Yet, despite clear law on point prohibiting such discrimination and numerous Supreme Court decisions, racial discrimination continues to be pervasive throughout academia,” Gene Hamilton, AFL President, said in a statement.
“AFL will not tolerate this unconstitutional discrimination at the University of Michigan and is taking decisive action to restore meritocracy and protect American values.”
AFL contends UM, which is subsidized by tax dollars, “brazenly defies Title VI, the Equal Protection Clause, and (federal law), employing secretive selection committees to enforce diversity quotas and discriminatory citation policies that favor ‘underrepresented’ authors while penalizing white scholars, including underrepresented Republicans and Protestant Christians.”
“Until recently, membership on the Law Review was an academic honor reserved for students who were selected on account of their first-year grades and their performance on a writing competition,” according to the lawsuit.
“But left-wing students and affirmative-action devotees at the University of Michigan Law School were unhappy with the demographic makeup produced by merit-based selection,” it continued.
“So the Michigan Law Review, with the approval and acquiescence of the University of Michigan general counsel’s office, has implemented a corrupt and illegal scheme of race and sex preferences to select its student members.”
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Michigan’s $78 million overhaul of its unemployment software is more than a year behind schedule, and will cost an additional $20 million to complete, frustrated lawmakers learned last week.
About nine months after the Unemployment Framework for Automated Claim & Tax Services was expected to go live, Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency and contractor Deloitte officials explained on Thursday why it will not fully roll out until 2026.
Officials said the delay will cost another $20 million to continue operating the old system, which has faced multiple lawsuits over false fraud allegations and improper payments during the pandemic. Michigan Advance reported that the $78 million contract with Deloitte started in 2023 and will go live on Sept. 30, 2024.
“The project is on an upward trajectory, was shown significant improvement, and we are now tracking on schedule for a go-live for the employer portion of the project this December and the claimant portion of the system next spring,” David Parent, a managing partner with Deloitte, told lawmakers on the House Appropriations Subcommittee on General Government.
Michigan Secretary of State and 2026 Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jocelyn Benson is “appalled” by developments at the anti-ICE riots over the weekend, and she’s taking a stand in support of the “law abiding people” of Los Angeles.
Benson took to X on Sunday to ensure Michiganders understand the leading Democratic candidate for governor adamantly opposes President Donald Trump’s efforts to stop the folks setting their city ablaze to keep illegal immigrants in the U.S.
As a military spouse whose career is inspired by the bravery of citizens who stood up for democracy during the civil rights movement—and the National Guard who protected them—I am appalled that President Trump is deploying our own military to quell protests against his regime.…
“As a military spouse whose career is inspired by the bravery of citizens who stood up for democracy during the civil rights movement – and the National Guard who protected them – I am appalled that President Trump is deploying our military to quell protests against his regime,” Benson wrote. “It’s not who we are, it does not make us great, and I pray that no law abiding people are hurt or worse due to this flagrant, tyrannical abuse of power.”
The post followed violent anti-ICE riots across Los Angeles on Friday that compelled the Trump administration on Saturday to deploy National Guard troops to “address the lawlessness that has been allowed to fester.”
In Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Michigan, minority students face much more racial inequality than in most states in the Deep South, according to a new analysis.
“Promoting racial equality in education can have a significant impact on promoting equality in the overall economy. It is essential to ensure that all school districts receive sufficient funding, the latest technology, and equal opportunities for tutoring and extracurricular activities, regardless of their racial composition,” WalletHub analyst Chip Lupo said.
“This will help bridge the racial gaps in test scores and graduation rates, which will promote equal opportunities for higher education and employment in the future,” he said.
To determine the Best States for Racial Equality in Education, researchers at the personal finance website examined six key metrics that compare the difference between Black and white students in areas like high school and college degrees, test scores and graduation rates.
In Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Michigan, “it’s hard, especially when you feel like you don’t have help.” “I work at Dunham’s,” Nicole Wares, a single mother living in Traverse City, told WPBN. “I’ve been there almost eight years now. I’m on disability. I would work more, but I physically can’t do it.”
“Money is tight everywhere,” she said. “Cost of living has gone up; income doesn’t really go up much.”
Wares’ situation isn’t unique. A whopping 75% of single mothers are struggling to afford basics like housing, child care, food, transportation and taxes in Whitmer’s Michigan.
That’s based on 2023 data from a 2025 United for ALICE report recently released by the Michigan Association of United Ways. It’s also up 2% from last year’s report.
Statewide, 41% of Michigan’s 4.1 million households struggle to afford a survival budget, which includes 2,359 more than in 2022.
The United States is in a “constitutional crisis” with the president “blatantly violating court orders,” and that should “scare everybody,” Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said just a day after infamously embracing the 47th POTUS in Michigan in a warm hug.
“Do you think we’re in a constitutional crisis? If the Supreme Court tells the president to do something and he has decided not to do it,” Pod Save America host Jon Favreau asked Whitmer in a clip posted to X on Wednesday. “And what’s the responsibility of other leaders in the country if we are?”
Whitmer responded: “We are, and I think that no one is above the law. The thought that we’ve got an administration that is just blatantly violating court orders, should, I think, scare everybody.
When President Donald Trump touched down in Michigan on Tuesday to celebrate the first 100 days of his second term, Michigan Democratic Congressman Shri Thanedar’s Detroit billboards were waiting to greet him.
“Rep. Shri Demands Congress IMPEACH TRUMP,” the billboards read.
The billboards, touted by Thanedar on X, coincided with seven articles of impeachment introduced by the Detroit Democrat on Monday over allegations the 47th POTUS is “unfit to serve as President and represents a clear and present danger to our nation’s constitution and our democracy.”
Donald Trump arrives in Michigan today to celebrate his first 100 days in office.
Border crossings plummeted 94% from a year ago, while arrests of illegal immigrants in March nearly matched the total for all of Fiscal Year 2024, according to new federal data. A Boarder Brief factsheet released by the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security on Tuesday highlights U.S. Customs and Border Protection data for March that illustrates the drastic turnaround in the first few months of President Donald Trump’s second term.
The data shows apprehensions along the southern border have declined by 95%, from 137,473 in March 2024 to 7,181 last month, while border encounters nationwide are down 88%, from 189,359 to 11,017 over the same time frame.
“It sure is a breath of fresh air to have a president do what he said he would do,” committee chair Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., said in a statement. “With Southwest border apprehensions hitting yet another record-low, law and order is at an all-time high.
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