Andrew Shirvell

Student Drops Restraining Order Request Against MI Asst AG Who Harassed Him For Being Gay

Jillian Rayfield | October 25, 2010, 1:22PM

Chris Armstrong, student body president at the University of Michigan, dropped his petition today for a restraining order against Andrew Shirvell, the Assistant Attorney General in Michigan.

For several months, Shirvell had been waging a campaign against Armstrong because he is gay. Shirvell blogged about Armstrong's "radical homosexual agenda" and repeatedly allegedly harassed him on campus. A hearing scheduled for today regarding Armstrong's petition has now been canceled.

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Andrew Shirvell

Michigan Assistant AG Taking Leave Of Absence After Attacking Gay Student On His Blog

Jillian Rayfield | October 1, 2010, 6:06PM

Michigan Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell will take a personal leave of absence amid much controversy over a series of blog posts attacking a gay University of Michigan student.

Shirvell has been blogging about University of Michigan student body president Chris Armstrong since April, accusing Armstrong, who is gay, of having "a radical homosexual activist" aiming "to promote a very deeply radical agenda at the University of Michigan."

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Andrew Shirvell

Michigan Assistant AG Blogging Against Gay College Student's 'Radical Homosexual Agenda'

Jillian Rayfield | September 29, 2010, 4:25PM

Michigan Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell has a blog. It's called "Chris Armstrong Watch" and is uniformly dedicated to keeping an eye on Armstrong, the openly gay University of Michigan student body president, who Shirvell maintains is "a radical homosexual activist" aiming "to promote a very deeply radical agenda at the University of Michigan."

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MI-GOV

Michigan AG: Ex-Con's Claims That I Was At Ex-Mayor's Mansion Stripper Party Are 'Bold-Faced Lies'

Eric Lach | July 28, 2010, 11:56AM

Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox (R)

With days to go before Michigan's gubernatorial primary, Michigan Attorney General and Republican candidate Mike Cox is dealing with the fallout of a leaked affidavit that puts him on the scene of a long-rumored party supposedly thrown at the Detroit mayor's mansion in 2002 by then-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.

Cox called the allegations "bold-faced lies," and says he's never set foot in the mayor's mansion. In an interview on WJR-AM, Cox suggested the leak of the affidavit was timed close to the primary to draw the most headlines.

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David Rivkin

Behind The Lawsuit: Florida AG Turned To Beltway Fixture -- And Old Lobbying Pal -- For Health-Care Challenge

Zachary Roth | March 25, 2010, 11:42AM

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum and attorney David Rivkin, Jr.

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum has so far served as the public face for the legal challenge to the constitutionality of health-care reform. But on the legal heavy-lifting, McCollum has had help from a top member of Washington's conservative legal establishment and former Bush 41 White House lawyer, who once teamed up with the AG as a lobbyist.

David Rivkin, a lawyer with white-shoe DC firm Baker Hostetler, told TPMmuckraker that McCollum personally asked him to get involved with the lawsuit, once it appeared that the reform bill would indeed finally pass. "McCollum approached me on behalf of himself and several other AGs," said Rivkin, who along with Lee Casey, another Baker Hostetler lawyer, is listed on the lawsuit as "of counsel."

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Health Care

Law Prof: GOP State AGs' Objection To Health Bill Is 'Crazy Talk'

Justin Elliott | December 28, 2009, 1:03PM

South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster and Sen. Jim Demint (R-SC)

The arguments of a group of Republican state attorneys general who are talking up a constitutional challenge to the "Cornhusker Kickback" provision of the health care bill are "strictly political" and do not have legal merit, a law professor tells TPMmuckraker.

"If a private individual brought the suit, the court might assess a fine for bringing a frivolous suit," says Timothy Jost, a health law specialist at the Washington and Lee University School of Law who favors the reform bill.

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