{"id":2763,"date":"2020-10-13T17:37:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T17:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michamber.com\/?post_type=news&amp;p=2763"},"modified":"2020-10-13T17:37:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T17:37:01","slug":"supreme-court-denies-whitmers-request-to-extend-pandemic-related-eos","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.michamber.com\/news\/supreme-court-denies-whitmers-request-to-extend-pandemic-related-eos\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Denies Whitmer\u2019s Request to Extend Pandemic Related EO\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><strong>Advocacy News &#8211; Oct 13, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Governor Whitmer\u2019s pandemic related executive orders are officially and unequivocally &#8220;incompatible with the constitution&#8221; and &#8220;are of no continuing legal effect&#8221; said the Supreme Court in a 6-1 ruling to deny Governor Whitmer\u2019s request that her executive orders remain valid for an additional 28 days.<\/p>\n<p>After the Michigan Supreme Court ruled on October 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0the law in which the Governor relied on to issue her pandemic related executive orders was unconstitutional, confusion arose around exactly when the orders were invalidated and no longer in effect.\u00a0 The Governor asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on the question and asked her orders stand an additional 28 days.\u00a0 The Supreme Court was clear that no extension was permissible and that all executive orders are invalidated with the October 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0ruling.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court ruling answered a major question businesses all across Michigan were asking however, many of the orders have been replaced with action taken by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services through a different legal justification (see related article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michamber.com\/news\/state-issues-additional-order-related-to-masks-gatherings-occupancy\/?_zs=wpW2f1&amp;_zl=LqHA7\">link)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on this most recent ruling, please contact Dan Papineau at\u00a0<a id=\"LPlnk240174\" href=\"mailto:dpapineau@michamber.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">dpapineau@michamber.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advocacy News &#8211; Oct 13, 2020 Governor Whitmer\u2019s pandemic related executive orders are officially and unequivocally &#8220;incompatible with the constitution&#8221; and &#8220;are of no continuing legal effect&#8221; said the Supreme Court in a 6-1 ruling to deny Governor Whitmer\u2019s request that her executive orders remain valid for an additional 28 days. After the Michigan Supreme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/2763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/2763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}