By Robin Bravender
Gongwer News Service
Two incumbent Michigan Supreme Court justices held onto their jobs, keeping the 6-1 Democratic majority on the court intact.
Supreme Court Chief Justice Megan Cavanagh and Justice Noah Hood – the Democratic-nominated candidates – fended off challenges from candidates backed by Republicans and the U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan in Nov. 3 election.
The races are technically nonpartisan, but political parties nominate the candidates.
Cavanagh and Hood were easily winning in Republican counties where Republican statewide candidates were enjoying large margins.
Associated Press tallies, with about 52.7% of votes counted as of 1:29 a.m. on Nov. 4, showed Cavanagh receiving 33.8% and Hood with 29.1% of votes. Republican-backed candidates Michael Warren and Casandra Morse-Bills received 14.2% and 13%, respectively. Thomas Howe and Jody White, the U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan candidates, received 4.7% and 5.3%, respectively.
Cavanagh and Hood were rolling even in deeply Republican areas of the state.
Democrats ran millions of ads to support their candidates, plus mail. There was virtually no advertising to support Morse-Bills and Warren.
Michigan Democratic Party Chair Curtis Hertel welcomed the justices’ return to the bench.
“It’s more important than ever that those who run our judicial system respect and uphold the rule of law,” Hertel said in a statement. “That’s why Michigan Democrats celebrate the election of Chief Justice Cavanagh and Justice Hood to our state’s Supreme Court — they have and will continue to defend and uphold our state’s Constitution and the democracy it protects.”
Gongwer News Service
Two incumbent Michigan Supreme Court justices held onto their jobs, keeping the 6-1 Democratic majority on the court intact.
Supreme Court Chief Justice Megan Cavanagh and Justice Noah Hood – the Democratic-nominated candidates – fended off challenges from candidates backed by Republicans and the U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan in Nov. 3 election.
The races are technically nonpartisan, but political parties nominate the candidates.
Cavanagh and Hood were easily winning in Republican counties where Republican statewide candidates were enjoying large margins.
Associated Press tallies, with about 52.7% of votes counted as of 1:29 a.m. on Nov. 4, showed Cavanagh receiving 33.8% and Hood with 29.1% of votes. Republican-backed candidates Michael Warren and Casandra Morse-Bills received 14.2% and 13%, respectively. Thomas Howe and Jody White, the U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan candidates, received 4.7% and 5.3%, respectively.
Cavanagh and Hood were rolling even in deeply Republican areas of the state.
Democrats ran millions of ads to support their candidates, plus mail. There was virtually no advertising to support Morse-Bills and Warren.
Michigan Democratic Party Chair Curtis Hertel welcomed the justices’ return to the bench.
“It’s more important than ever that those who run our judicial system respect and uphold the rule of law,” Hertel said in a statement. “That’s why Michigan Democrats celebrate the election of Chief Justice Cavanagh and Justice Hood to our state’s Supreme Court — they have and will continue to defend and uphold our state’s Constitution and the democracy it protects.”
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