Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said her state won’t carry out another COVID-19-related lockdown following GOP-led lawsuits in 2020 that argued she overstepped her constitutional authority. “I have been sued by my legislature. I have lost in a Republican-controlled Supreme Court, and I don’t have all of the exact same tools [that I had 15 months ago],” Whitmer, a Democrat, told “Meet the Press” on Sunday. She elaborated in saying that the lawsuits left her without the authority to unilaterally implement a lockdown due to surging cases of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes the COVID-19 disease. Republicans have said that lockdowns are damaging to the economy and livelihood of residents, while pointing to states like Florida and Texas, which have eschewed lockdowns in recent days, as models to follow. COVID-19 cases in both states have appeared to level off in recent days, although officials have said that Florida’s …