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WASHINGTON POST DAILY 202: MALLORY MCMORROW HAS A ‘BENCH’ WARNING FOR DEMOCRATS
Remember Mallory McMorrow? She’s the state senator from Michigan who went viral in April 2022 for her scathing takedown of a GOP colleague who’d falsely labeled her a “groomer,” to loud cheers from Democrats coast-to-coast. Read More >
POLITICO: HOW MICHIGAN BECAME THE ANTI-FLORIDA
OUT OF THE BLUE — When the Michigan Senate sent a so-called red flag bill to the desk of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer today, it became the latest example of the increasingly blue swing state morphing into what the bill’s author likes to call “the anti-Florida.” Read More >
WXYZ: MICHIGAN SENATE SENDS 'RED FLAG' GUN BILL TO WHITMER
The Michigan Senate has passed a bill Wednesday that will establish extreme risk protection orders – also known as "red flag" laws – which will allow courts to remove guns from people believed to be a danger to others or themselves.
ABORTION WINS ELECTIONS: THE FIGHT TO MAKE REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS THE CENTERPIECE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY’S 2024 AGENDA.
McMorrow flipped her state-senate district in 2018; she is now majority whip and the star of a viral video of her own: Her vigorous 2022 rebuttal to a senate colleague who had accused her of “grooming” school-children has been watched by 16 million people. “Our class, we’re never going to forget the 2016 cycle,” McMorrow told me. Read More >
M LIVE: SENATE OKS RED FLAG GUN PACKAGE AIMED AT DISARMING MICHIGANDERS IN CRISIS
“If you look at the 19 other states that have red flag laws, the average police department maybe gets three extreme risk protection orders filed per year,” Sen. Mallory McMorrow, D-Royal Oak, said following session. “It is not something that is used egregiously, or so frequently, because it is mostly used to address suicides ... that’s what we hear most frequently. Read More >
VICE/BROADLY: THE CANDIDATE WHO DECIDED TO RUN AFTER TRUMP BRAGGED ABOUT SEXUAL ASSAULT
Mallory McMorrow says she remembers thinking: "How do you tell your daughters that this is not only acceptable behavior but that it’s laudable?"
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