Michigan Lawmakers Take Their Fight for Right to Regulate Elections to Supreme Court

The Supreme Court may decide whether the Constitution lets someone other than the state legislatures set the times, places, and manner of federal elections.

The Michigan state Capitol building in Lansing, Mich., on Oct. 8, 2020. Rey Del Rio/Getty Images

A group of 11 Michigan lawmakers is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow them to keep fighting in court to affirm their constitutionally specified powers to prescribe the conduct of federal elections in the state.

The group includes two state senators and nine representatives, all Republicans.