A liberal advocacy group wants to ask more questions on whether then-Attorney General Bill Schuette and his staff tried to use private e-mails to skirt open government laws.
The group Progress Michigan took that case Tuesday to the state Supreme Court. Schuette, a Republican, has been out of office for more than a year now. But Progress Michigan director, Lonnie Scott, said there’s a principle at stake.
“For us, this has always been about transparency, and we have fought this case all the way to this point because we don’t believe that the roadblocks that were erected by Attorney General Schuette should stand in the way of that transparency.”
Progress Michigan said it wants to follow up on evidence that it says shows Schuette and his staff used public resources for political purposes. The attorney general’s office said the records Progress Michigan is seeking don’t exist.