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Oversight subcommittee documents testimony alleging misuse of state power across multiple agencies
Summary
Representative Regas presented testimony and hearings alleging the "weaponization" of state government, including claims about the attorney general's handling of Flint prosecutions, aggressive COVID-era enforcement, and DNR enforcement actions affecting farmers and wildlife rehabilitators.
Representative Regas, chair of the Weaponization of State Government subcommittee, summarized a series of hearings in which witnesses testified that government authority had been misused to intimidate or punish citizens and businesses.
Regas said former attorneys general Bill Schuette and Mike Cox testified about politicalization within the attorney general's office, particularly alleging dismantling of the prosecution…
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