(The Center Square) – A Michigan citizen-only voting ballot proposal that failed to make it on the Nov. 3 ballot is now before U.S. Supreme Court.
On Tuesday, Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh requested a response from Michigan officials named in the case by noon Wednesday.
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