\u201cA Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on Demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
But University of Michigan law professor Richard Primus said Whitmer\u2019s order appears to carve out an exception to avoid running afoul of the federal requirement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis order is written so that it doesn\u2019t apply to people who are charged in other states and then fled to Michigan,” he said. “It would apply to people who leave other states without being charged with anything there because they\u2019ve committed no crime yet under those state laws and are in Michigan.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said he expects lawmakers to continue to find new ways to adapt to a post-Roe landscape.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s like a battlefield with mines and snipers around every corner. There\u2019s no one thing that is the thing that\u2019s going to happen. Things are going to happen on every side of it,\u201d Primus said.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s uncertain whether the order will face a legal challenge.<\/p>\n
Genevieve Marnon, the legislative director for the abortion-rights opposition group Right to Life Michigan, said someone should sue.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fact that [Gov. Whitmer\u2019s] telling law enforcement agents in this state to not cooperate with criminal proceedings from another state \u2014 it should give everybody pause. Because what if it were about a different kind of crime? One that she liked but other people didn\u2019t?\u201d Marnon said Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel couldn\u2019t be reached Wednesday for a comment on what the policy change meant for Michigan prosecutors and law enforcement. But her office did reiterate her previous comments that she would not use her office resources to aid in the prosecution of women seeking an abortion or medical professionals providing one.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n