The Michigan Supreme Court ruled last week that the law, which Ms. Whitmer had cited, was unconstitutional. Many groups in the anti-government movement call themselves militias, even if definitions vary widely. Michigan has a long history of anti-government activity. A group known as the Michigan Militia dates to the early 1990s, when Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, later convicted of carrying out the Oklahoma City bombing attack in 1995 that killed 168 people, attended a few of its early meetings. The upheavals in 2020 provided new impetus for anti-government groups to move from the online world to the streets.

Source: New York Times October 08, 2020 16:22 UTC