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Democratic AG nominee Eli Savit ignored 500-pound black market marijuana operation
Washtenaw County Prosecutor Eli Savit, the Democratic nominee for Michigan Attorney General, is facing criticism for his decision not to prosecute individuals involved in an illicit 500-pound marijuana operation.
“500 pounds of illegally trafficked marijuana. No investigation. No charges. Evidence destroyed,” Eaton County Prosecutor Doug Lloyd, Savit’s Republican competition in the race, posted to X on Friday. “A prosecutor does not get to pick and choose which laws to enforce. My opponent’s record makes clear he believes otherwise.
“Michigan needs an Attorney General who will enforce the law, support law enforcement, and take the job of Michigan’s top cop seriously,” Lloyd wrote. Click here to read more.
Murderers. Rapists. Fentanyl Traffickers. Abdul El-Sayed Wants to Abolish the Agency Arresting Them.
As Michigan’s U.S. Senate race heats up, Democratic progressive Abdul El-Sayed continues to embrace a position that few candidates are willing to own: abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). On his campaign website, El-Sayed argues the agency “cannot be reformed or retrained” and says it should be dismantled and replaced with a new immigration enforcement structure.
What that new structure is and if criminals would continue to be arrested has not been identified by El-Sayed. Michigan News Source reached out to his campaign for more clarification on what that new structure would be but they did not return our request for comment. Click here to read more.
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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced charges against five non-citizens alleged to have voted in Michigan’s 2024 November general election.
Her office also brought charges against one U.S. citizen accused of registering their non-citizen spouse to vote.
Non-citizens allegedly voting in Michigan
By the numbers:
Sixteen cases of non-citizens voting in the 2024 election were brought to Nessel’s office, in addition to 22 more cases involving non-citizens voting in elections between 2009 and 2025, by the Michigan Department of State.
In addition to the six charged, 10 have been closed without charges, and 22 remain under review. Click here to read more.
Flawed drug tests can separate mothers and newborns
Advocates and medical groups are pushing to end childbirth drug testing practices they say are leading tens of thousands of families to face child welfare investigations, criminal allegations and, in some cases, separation from their children.
The urine drug tests, done on both the mother and newborn at childbirth in hospitals, often without explicit consent, are faulty, producing false-positive results nearly half the time, according to The Marshall Project. Even if a positive result is later dismissed, hospitals may still be required to report it to child welfare agencies and, in some cases, to law enforcement.
The degree to which these false results are being reported is staggering.
The Marshall Project discovered more than 70,000 instances after reviewing state and federal data spanning six years in 21 states. Click here to read more.
Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing
A robot was on fire. Again.
It was the summer of 2024, and the cutting-edge robots inside General Dynamics’ sweltering artillery factory near Dallas were catching fire with startling regularity, according to four former workers there. This wasn’t ideal, as the plant was supposed to be churning out urgently needed artillery shells for Ukraine. The robots, giant metal arms with clamps for hands, would end up drenched in oil, which would then — no surprise — combust as they moved steel blocks heated to 1,800 degrees into and out of a machine that periodically erupted columns of fire. One blaze that summer melted a robot’s cables, putting it out of commission for a week. Click here to read more.
