{"id":16455,"date":"2012-11-09T12:09:17","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T17:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16455"},"modified":"2012-11-09T12:09:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T17:09:17","slug":"good-news-from-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16455\/good-news-from-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News From Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst all the bad news in this election, here&#8217;s a ray of light: Conservatives <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insurancejournal.com\/news\/midwest\/2012\/11\/09\/270084.htm\" target=\"_blank\">held on to a majority<\/a> on the tightly contested Michigan Supreme Court, with conservative superstar Stephen Markman one of two on the right who won re-election. Michigan voters also rejected, overwhelmingly, a union-backed constitutional amendment to try to enshrine incredibly broad union powers into the state&#8217;s fundamental law.<\/p>\n<p>Markman&#8217;s re-election is particularly good news. He is a veteran of the wars for a textualist interpretation of the Constitution, and also teaches at the wonderful Hillsdale College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst all the bad news in this election, here&#8217;s a ray of light: Conservatives held on to a majority on the tightly contested Michigan Supreme Court, with conservative superstar Stephen Markman one of two on the right who won re-election. Michigan voters also rejected, overwhelmingly, a union-backed constitutional amendment to try to enshrine incredibly broad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[814,3933],"class_list":["post-16455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-michigan","tag-stephen-markman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16456,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16455\/revisions\/16456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}