Michigan
Entries whose effect landed somewhere in Michigan (MI) — a city, a county, a campus, a detention facility — whichever government acted. Federal conduct inside Michigan counts here.
This is not the same set as Michigan's jurisdiction page, which records the 7 entries where Michigan's own government was the acting authority, wherever those events happened. The two overlap and neither contains the other: place and power are separate facts, and statewide acts appear there and not here.
10 entries · 8 places
One square per place, sized equally, coloured by how many entries landed there. Ordered most-documented first: a grid of equal tiles has no reading order of its own.
Ypsilanti city 3 entries
Attorneys alleged mold exposure caused Michigan inmate Krystal Clark's medical deterioration at Women's Huron Valley prison; MDOC disputed claim
Attorneys for Krystal Clark, incarcerated at Michigan's Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility, filed an emergency federal court motion on July 6, 2026 alleging she developed severe mold-related medical deterioration -- including a fungal ear infection, hearing loss, and respiratory symptoms -- after months of exposure to mold at the facility. The Michigan Department of Corrections disputed the allegations, citing a private contractor's environmental test showing no dangerous mold levels, but temporarily transferred Clark to an outside health center on July 9, three days after the motion was filed. Clark's mold-related symptoms, including visible mold in her ears and facial swelling, had also been described independently at a February 2026 Michigan House Oversight Committee hearing.
DOJ charged eight U-Michigan divestment activists with 20-year federal felonies a year after state charges against the movement were dropped
On June 10, 2026, federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of Michigan unsealed a 63-page indictment charging eight pro-Palestinian activists tied to the University of Michigan divestment movement with conspiracy to transmit a threat, conspiracy to tamper with a witness, and destruction of property to prevent seizure — felonies carrying five to twenty years. The charges, announced alongside FBI raids in Ypsilanti, describe a 2024–2025 intimidation campaign: vandalism and graffiti at the homes of the U-M provost and regents, the placement of fake bloody corpses on a board member's lawn, and the defacing of the Jewish Federation of Detroit. The case followed the collapse of an earlier, separate state prosecution: charges Attorney General Dana Nessel brought against U-M encampment protesters in 2024 were all dropped by May 2025. Civil-rights groups say the federal charges treat political advocacy as terrorism and blur protected speech with criminal conduct.
Michigan prison staff dismissed inmate's blood-clot symptoms as lies days before her fatal pulmonary embolism
Khaira Howard, 28, died at Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Ypsilanti, Michigan on May 13, 2026, days before a scheduled parole release, after corrections staff dismissed her reports that she had lost feeling in her legs. An autopsy the Michigan Department of Corrections released July 9, 2026 found the cause of death was a pulmonary thromboembolism caused by a deep vein thrombosis in her lower leg -- the same symptom a prisoner-observation aide said staff had disbelieved.
Brethren city 1 entry
Michigan DNR officers stopped Detroit father on pretext of fishing-license check, delivering him to ICE custody
On October 18, 2025, Michigan Department of Natural Resources officers stopped Detroit resident Jose Pedro Hernandez Lupercio, a Mexican citizen with no convictions who was fishing with his sons on the Manistee River in Brethren, Michigan, and the stop led to his transfer into ICE custody. DHS said the arrest occurred during "a targeted operation led by the USFS in conjunction with the DNR," while DNR maintains its officers were present only "as backup" and were "not present to enforce federal immigration laws" — an account contradicted by a federal habeas corpus ruling stating DNR agents contacted ICE after Hernandez Lupercio could not prove legal presence. He was held on $7,000 bond and released in February 2026.
Detroit city 1 entry
Trump blocked Gordie Howe Bridge opening, benefiting Moroun family donors who gave $1 million to Trump super PAC
President Trump refused to allow the Gordie Howe International Bridge — a completed Detroit-Windsor crossing built jointly by Canada and Michigan — to open, causing cancellation of a scheduled June 11, 2026 grand opening at the last minute. The Moroun family, which owns the competing Ambassador Bridge and donated $1 million to a Trump-aligned super PAC, stands to benefit from the new bridge remaining closed. Canadian officials, including Windsor's mayor, publicly named the Moroun family's financial ties to Trump as the likely driver of his opposition.
Hartland Township city 1 entry
Cromaine District Library Board voted to relocate more than 160 challenged LGBTQ-themed books to its adult section without review
On May 21, 2026, the Cromaine District Library Board of Trustees in Hartland Township, Michigan, voted 4-1 to relocate more than 160 challenged books — most of them LGBTQ-themed — from the children's and teen sections to the adult section, without completing the review its own appeals process required. The board had read only 58 of 218 challenged titles before abandoning the review, after earlier rewriting the library's collection-development policy with assistance from Alliance Defending Freedom and removing the American Library Association's Library Bill of Rights protections.
Newberry city 1 entry
Michigan corrections officer altered Native American prisoner's ID with racist caricature, posted it publicly for humiliation, lawsuit alleges
A corrections officer at Newberry Correctional Facility in Michigan's Upper Peninsula digitally altered a Native American prisoner's ID to depict him wearing a feathered headdress and other stereotypical Indigenous imagery, then posted the altered image publicly, according to a state civil-rights lawsuit filed in early August 2026 by prisoner Dylan Leenheer (Gun Lake Tribe). The lawsuit, which names officers Jay Stevens and Robert Marsh and the Michigan Department of Corrections, alleges a broader pattern at the facility -- including two other prisoners, one Black and one of "Indian-national-origin," whose ID photos were similarly altered -- and that no corrections staff involved faced discipline.
Wayne County county 1 entry
DOJ demands Wayne County, Michigan turn over all ~865,000 ballots from the 2024 election
On April 14, 2026, U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon sent a demand letter to Wayne County Clerk Cathy Garrett invoking the Civil Rights Act of 1960 to require turnover of all ballots, receipts, and envelopes — roughly 865,000 — cast in the November 2024 federal election in Michigan's most populous county, where Kamala Harris won by a margin of about a quarter-million votes. The letter cited a long-dismissed 2020 civil suit and three 2020-era voter-fraud convictions as its predicate, gave the clerk 14 days to comply, and threatened a court order. Michigan's governor, secretary of state, and attorney general publicly rejected the demand and refused to comply.
West Olive city 1 entry
DOE forced Michigan's J.H. Campbell coal plant to keep running past its planned retirement, citing a claimed emergency
On May 23, 2025, the U.S. Department of Energy invoked Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act — an emergency provision — to order Consumers Energy's J.H. Campbell coal-fired plant in West Olive, Michigan to keep operating past its planned May 31, 2025 retirement, citing a claimed national energy emergency. DOE went on to extend the order five more times, keeping the plant running through at least November 14, 2026, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars to ratepayers.
Ypsilanti Township city 1 entry
Police fired 27 shots at unarmed Navy veteran John Jenuwine; he bled out while officers watched
Washtenaw County Sheriff's deputies, pursuing an erratic white van, conducted two PIT maneuvers and fired 27 shots at an unarmed driver who did not match the dispatch description. John Andrew Jenuwine, 34, died of blood loss. Officers violated department policy by using deadly force without verbal engagement; the medical examiner ruled his death a homicide. Two deputies received 2024 commendations despite the killing.