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Gretchen Esther Whitmer (born August 23, 1971) is an American lawyer and politician serving since 2019 as the 49th governor of Michigan. A member of the Democratic Party, she served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2001 to 2006 and in the Michigan Senate from 2006 to 2015.
Whitmer, the main target of the plot, had seen her political profile elevated over the preceding months due to her early response to the outbreak of COVID-19 in Michigan, in which she enacted strict statewide mitigation measures such as a lockdown of the state. A Democrat, Gov. Whitmer garnered national attention for what some advocacy groups and experts called overly restrictive stay-at-home ...
The world had shut down, and they were angry. In 2020, a group of men surveilled Michigian Governor Gretchen Whitmer ’s vacation home in Elk Rapids, Michigan, watching and plotting. To them, she ...
A Republican state lawmaker’s glowing tribute to twin brothers who were acquitted of a plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer has been labelled “disturbing” by the Michigan Governor’s office.
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed the bill on March 16, 2023. [ 5 ] In 2024, Michigan repealed “the last ban on commercial surrogacy within the US” - for individuals and couples and reformed the parentage laws, that acknowledges same sex couples and their families with children.
A jury acquitted three men Friday in the last trial connected to a plan to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a scheme that was portrayed as an example of homegrown terrorism on the eve of the ...
After escaping an attempted kidnapping by far-right perpetrators back in 2020, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, 51, is set to be sworn in for her second term as the governor of Michigan on Jan. 1. Explore ...
The governor of Michigan is the head of government, and chief executive of the U.S. state of Michigan. The current governor is Gretchen Whitmer, a member of the Democratic Party, who was inaugurated on January 1, 2019, as the state's 49th governor. She was re-elected to serve a second term in 2022. [3] The governor is elected to a four-year term and is limited to two terms.