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Merissa
Kovach
12/11/2012
NDAA

Hey Chairman Levin, the Michigan House Says You Should Fix the NDAA

By Merissa Kovach, Field Organizer, ACLU of Michigan at 4:22pm

As Michigan continues to navigate the ugly partisan shenanigans surrounding the so-called “right to work” legislation currently being jammed through the legislature, at least one beacon of light deserves recognition.

Last week, the Michigan House of Representatives passed House Bill 5768, legislation that rejects Michigan’s cooperation with the indefinite detention and mandatory military detention provisions of last year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which was authored by Michigan’s own Senator Carl Levin (D), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and signed into law by President Obama one year ago this month.

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09/11/2012
War on Women

If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Dance!

By Merissa Kovach, Field Organizer, ACLU of Michigan & Maggie McGuire, Communications Associate, ACLU of Michigan at 5:22pm

As Michigan legislators observed states quickly upping the ante with extreme war on women policies like the personhood amendments and mandatory vaginal probe laws, they must have grown tired of our state merely being a face in the crowd; so they decided to dole out their own special brand of bat-crackers crazy in the form of an outrageous, monster War on Women Mega Bill.

We’ve written about the War on Women Mega Bill before, which combines every attack on women's health into the greatest assault on reproductive rights in our state’s history.

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