Chad B.
Google
The Michigan Supreme Court has failed to seriously confront one of the deepest structural dangers in state government: executive agencies exercising legislative, executive, and quasi-judicial power at the same time. When an agency can make the rules, enforce the rules, control the record, and then funnel people into agency-shaped adjudication, there is no true impartiality. That is not meaningful separation of powers, and it is not real due process. Agencies like the Michigan Secretary of State have built systems of forms, procedures, deadlines, and internal review mechanisms that often function less like neutral justice and more like self-protective administrative machinery. The people most harmed are often the poor, the working class, the disabled, and families with children, because mobility restrictions and administrative sanctions do not stay on paper—they affect jobs, medical access, education, housing, and family safety. A court that will not meaningfully check this concentration of power is not protecting rights; it is protecting a system where rights are treated like revocable privileges.