Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

Nessel visits Gogebic Range in attorney general's race

By RICHARD JENKINS

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IRONWOOD — Democrat Dana Nessel stopped in Ironwood Tuesday during a tour through the Upper Peninsula in her campaign to win the party’s nomination for Michigan attorney general.

Having practiced law for nearly 25 years, one of Nessel’s most famous cases was in 2012 when she challenged Michigan’s ban on adoptions and marriage for same-sex couples in DeBoer v. Snyder. The case would eventually be combined with several others and lead to the U.S. Supreme Court’s legalization of gay marriage.

“That was a happy ending for us,” she jok...

 
 
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