The legal challenge against Michigan’s emergency manager law on claims that it racially discriminates has only been bolstered by the Flint water crisis, according to the head of a national civil rights group involved in a lawsuit against the measure.

“It strengthens our case, it strengthens our conviction that removing democratic values and the democratic processes could only lead to disaster,” said Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. Warren, an attorney, and the New York-based center are advisers in the lawsuit that charges the emergency manager law is unconstitutional. ...

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