The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled Monday with Senate Democrats that nine bills held in the Republican-controlled House should go to Governor Gretchen Whitmer because they were adopted by both chambers of the Legislature.

The bills were adopted last year while the Legislature was entirely under Democratic control, but some bills were not sent to Whitmer before Republicans took control of the House in January. House Speaker Matt Hall (R-Richland Township) ordered the clerk to hold onto the bills because, he said, the new majority was not obligated to wrap up business left unfinished by the former Democratic majority.

The appeals court panel ruled that transmitting the bills is not discretionary, but required by the Michigan Constitution. That aligns with a decision by a Michigan Court of

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