U.S. Voters May Have No Constitutionally Protected Right to Elect Mayors

April 20, 2016
City Lab

Civil rights attorneys knew that Public Act 436, Michigan’s current emergency manager law, was likely illegal and unconstitutional way back when it was first enacted, in December 2012. This was well before the Flint water crisis, which not only exposed many of the emergency management system’s failings, but also the real life-or-death consequences of them. In March 2014, lawyers at the Center for Constitutional Rights and The Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice filed a lawsuit against it, outlining the many constitutional rightsthe law violates—not least of which is the right to vote. ...

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