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Many anti-lockdown and pro-Trump rallies featured QAnon signs and slogans like this popular one about accused child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein at a conservative protest at the Capitol against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, April 30, 2020 | Anna Liz Nichols (Michigan Advance)
QAnon has found a home in Michigan.
The right-wing conspiracy theory which is rooted in anti-Semitic tropes and revolves around former President Donald Trump hunting down and eventually killing Democratic politicians and wealthy liberals who lead double lives as Satan-worshipping cannibals running a child sex trafficking ring is increasingly spreading from the fringes of the internet to conservative spaces across the state, political leaders and academics say.
Judge denies advocacy group s bid to stop COVID-19 rules for student athletes
A judge on Wednesday denied an advocacy group’s request to halt COVID-19 testing for state school athletes and other measures health officials instituted amid the pandemic.
The group Let Them Play Michigan, which this year sued after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer extended a lockdown order on high school sports, filed a lawsuit this month challenging the rapid testing requirements of youths age 13-19 practicing and playing on teams.
The suit questioned the authority to impose the order and subsequent guidance while arguing that “student-athletes have endured unilateral orders enacted by Executive Branch officials that severely restrict their ability to freely associate with one another and compete in high school sports.”
Michigan judge denies injunction to stop testing, quarantining of high school athletes
By FOX 2 Staff article
DETROIT (FOX 2) - A Michigan judge has rejected a request to stop regular coronavirus testing of high school athletes and other steps ordered by the state health department.
Judge Michael Kelly said Wednesday an injunction isn t appropriate at this stage because a group called Let Them Play Michigan is unlikely to win the case. He made his ruling just one day after hearing arguments from the state and the group.
The group argued that health department orders, especially weekly virus testing, should have gone through a formal rule-making process. But the judge says state law plainly gives authority to the health director to issue emergency orders in response to a pandemic.
Michigan judge hears arguments over COVID tests for high school athletes, no ruling
By Ingrid Kelley and FOX 2 Staff
Published article
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (FOX 2) - A Michigan judge heard arguments from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s administration and attorneys for parents of high school athletes who are fighting the state s COVID-19 mandates including testing. However, he did not issue a ruling on either side.
Organizer Jayme McElvany spoke Tuesday, saying that the emergency injunction is necessary. I’m not willing to sit back and cross my fingers and hope that all of this just goes away, she said. That was asking them to halt the most recent rule handed down - the interim guidance for athletes being forced to test and for quarantine.
A QAnon-Curious Mom Helped Lead Michigan Back to COVID Hell Kayla Ruble, Justin Rohrlich
DETROIT Jayme McElvany was at it again.
A junior wrestler at Lakewood High School in western Michigan had been asked to comply with a state-mandated quarantine after close contact with another student who tested positive for COVID-19. McElvany, an anti-lockdown activist in the state, seized on his case as her latest cause célèbre even as the coronavirus pandemic in Michigan reaches new heights.
“GUYS!!!! One of our wrestlers that we donated to yesterday already got a hearing!! Right now!! At 11:30! Here’s the link to watch Jimmy fight for this kid!!” McElvany wrote on Facebook Wednesday, namechecking local defense lawyer James Thomas. “PRAY for a VICTORY!!. Please Lord stand with Jimmy and help him touch the heart of this judge. for the sake of this child and many more like him. In Jesus name AMEN!!”