Attorneys for Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer have asked a trial judge to excuse her from testifying in the lawsuit she brought to block county prosecutors from enforcing the state’s strict abortion law.
Whitmer, a first-term Democrat, is seeking reelection in November.
She has made the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court a central issue in her campaign, vowing publicly to “fight like hell” to keep access to abortion easy in Michigan.
In what her lawyers titled “Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s Emergency Motion to Quash Subpoena,” Whitmer provided a list of reasons why she should not be required to testify at an evidentiary court hearing in her own case….