A simple flowchart to understand why Zombie Emergency Manager Law PA 72 is dead

By on August 7, 2012 in Bwahahahahaha, Emergency Manager Law, Michigan Republicans

“He’s dead, Jim…”

Earlier today, I wrote about how Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette is trying to resurrect the Zombie Emergency Financial Manager Law, PA 72. I showed how he’s using circuitous logic to arrive at that conclusion. But, it’s pretzel logic at it finest.

He says first that MCL 8.4, which prevents the resurrection of a dead law, doesn’t apply because PA 4 is only suspended, not repealed. Therefore, it’s still on the books and MCL 8.4 doesn’t prevent them from resurrecting PA 72.

Then he says that, because PA 4 is gone, its repeal of PA 72 doesn’t exist so it is able to rise from the dead to walk the earth among the living.

I put together this easy-to-follow flowchart to help out AG Schuette who seems to lack the ability to grasp simple, common sense concepts. It’s so basic that even Mr. Schuette should be able to wrap his simple mind around it:

There. See? That wasn’t so hard, was it?

Sheesh…


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  • http://www.facebook.com/connie.crew Connie Crew

    I think you are giving Mr Schuette far more credit than he deserves, but I like your flow chart!

  • http://www.facebook.com/larry.gentry.33 Larry Gentry

    But, it is nullified not repealed………I don’t think Justice Young will buy this garbage…….

    • cryingliberty

      No. The law is suspended, which means that the law is still “on the books” but cannot be acted upon because the referendum suspends its use.

      Since PA 4 is still on the books until November, PA 72 is also repealed. So, right now, PA 4 is sitting on PA 72′s coffin and keeping it closed, but is effectively comatose and unresponsive. PA 4 isn’t dead, but it’s also preventing PA 72 from rising like a zombie.

      Once PA 4 is repealed in November, MCL 8.4 takes over, pushing the now-dead body of PA 4 off the coffin and sitting on that coffin to keep it shut. Voila! No more EM law! And since both EM laws have been repealed, there’s no hope of either of them being re-enacted.

  • Shanne Mooris

    I agree, your chat is easy to understand. Shanne @ ed butowsky financial distress calculator

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