The Kingdom of Snyder (formerly known as Michigan)

[annabanana]

I have a question. How is the "Emergency Manager Law" as it is written and/or administered in Michigan constitutional? Or is the overreach SO BIG that it defies legal parsing?

The phrase "of the people. by the people and for the people" is just so much rhetoric, after all.

[annabanana]

1. shameless self kick... was this a really dumb question?. . . n/t

[dommyluc]

2. Turnabout

I would REALLY like to see Obama issue an executive order saying that the government of Michigan cannot handle it's own affairs, and appoint an emergency manager for the state - someone as far to the left as possible. Then you would have every Republican in government screaming about how unconstitutional it is and take it all the way to the Supreme Court. If the Supreme Court rules against this move, the the emergency manager law is invalid. If it refuses to rule the law unconstitutional, then Obama should appoint a manager in every red state that is having financial troubles, i.e., basically all of them. I may be wrong on this but it would be fucking hilarious to shove it to the Tea partiers who are constantly blathering about "freedom" and "constitutionality".
Oh, and a little O.T., but I have come to notice that Ted Cruz looks like a cross between Patrick Buchanan and my ass. Of course, my ass has much more sparkling personality and far greater intelligence.

[socialist_n_TN]

3. That actually sounds like a workable tactic.........

Except I wonder how far to the left an Obama emergency manager would be.

Welcome to DU.

[socialist_n_TN]

4. I agree anna..........

And it's not a dumb question as far as I'm concerned. I think the problem is that until it's challenged in the streets, Snyder, et. al. will get away with it.

[annabanana]

5. My folks met a U Mich, Ann Arbor back after the war.

I was born 5 months after my Mom graduated. They were living in special student housing set up for returning GI's eager to get started with their lives after they came home.

It kind of bugs me what's happened to what used to be a State in the USA.