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Michigan lawmaker disciplined for warning Trump backers

by David Eggert
| December 9, 2020 3:33 PM

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Republican leaders in the Michigan House stripped a Black Democratic lawmaker of her committee assignments Wednesday because she took to social media to warn “Trumpers,” after saying she had received at least one racist threat that she should be lynched.

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