Michigan Votes Forum

Introduced in the Senate on April 25, 2007, to break up the eighty-seventh judicial district into three separate districts, one each for Otsego, Kalkaska and Crawford Counties

The vote was 27 in favor, 7 opposed and 4 not voting

(Senate Roll Call 233 at Senate Journal 74)

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Given the reduction in litigation and the reduction in MI population, any increase in districts that results in new judges and staff in these new districts MUST be accompanied by a reduction in judges. An obvious place is in Detroit where the population continues to drop but the number of judges does not!