Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said her state won’t carry out another COVID-19-related lockdown amid a spring spike in cases, following Republican-led lawsuits in 2020 that argued she overstepped her constitutional authority. “I have been sued by my legislature. I have lost in a Republican-controlled Supreme Court, and I don’t have all of the exact same tools [that I had 15 months ago],” Whitmer, a Democrat, told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on April 18. She said the lawsuits left her without the authority to unilaterally implement a lockdown amid a new resurgence in cases of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes COVID-19. Republicans have said that lockdowns are damaging to the economy and livelihood of residents, while pointing to states like Florida and Texas, which have eschewed lockdowns in recent days, as models to follow. COVID-19 cases in both states have appeared to level off in recent days, although …
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