How Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is shaping the legal resistance to Trump

In 2014, five years before Dana Nessel became the attorney general of Michigan—back when she was still running her own law firm—she took on a pivotal case challenging the state’s ban on same-sex marriage and adoption by same-sex couples. The case put her in direct opposition to her predecessor and attorney general at the time, Bill Schuette, who she says fought “tooth and nail” to uphold the state law.

During the trial, Schuette hired experts who used spurious anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric to defend the law.