A right-wing militia member convicted in the plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer was sentenced to over 19 years in prison in a US District Court a day after another ringleader had been sentenced to 16 years, prosecutors said. The two sentences were the biggest handed so far in the foiled plot but fell short of the life sentences.
The state trial of three men accused of collaborating in the far-right plot to kidnap and kill the governor of Michigan began in Jackson County Court on October 3.
A free market think tank will appeal a federal judge’s decision to dismiss its claim that a 1970 amendment to the Michigan Constitution discriminates against religious schools.