telling michigan republicans, not so fast. the ruling does kick the law back to a lower court, but they re directing the lower court to, quote, consider whether the michigan legislature possesses the power to retroactively immunize its own acts that the voters rejected by referendum. you may also remember our coverage of how the republicans passed this law in the first place. i mean, after you pass a law, normally, there s a long lag time before the law goes into effect. most laws in michigan go into effect three months before the end of the session in which they are passed. but when michigan republicans pass this emergency manager law, they decided it would go into effect immediately. under the michigan constitution, you can only do that if you have the support of two-thirds of the legislature. republicans did not have the support of two-thirds of the legislature, but they rushed the bill through like that anyway. they claimed they had the votes for it to go into immediate effect, but