LANSING, Mich. — Senate Democrats on Wednesday did not take a vote on Senate Republican Leader Aric Nesbitt’s resolution to reaffirm the state Senate’s commitment to the supremacy of the U.S. and Michigan constitutions.

“This would have been a fitting and patriotic way to recognize our great nation as we celebrate America’s 250th birthday this summer. But instead, the Democrat majority chose not to act and filed it away into the legislative abyss, likely to be forgotten,” said Nesbitt, R-Porter Township. “Democrats are so completely paralyzed by political correctness that they can’t even honor one of our nation’s founding documents. But unlike some of my liberal colleagues, I’m not afraid or ashamed to reaffirm my oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Michigan Constitution.

“We are not going to surrender one single inch of our legal system to foreign ideologies, and we are not going to apologize for defending our sovereignty. We cannot and will not allow our country to be undermined by foreign legal codes that despise American liberty.”

Nesbitt’s Senate Resolution 132 reaffirms the supremacy of the U.S. and Michigan constitutions, proclaiming that “these foundational documents guarantee fundamental, inalienable rights to all citizens, including, but not limited to, due process, equal protection under the law, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion” and condemns “any and all organizations that seek to subvert these constitutional protections or employ terrorism and violence against the people of the United States and the state of Michigan.”

The Senate’s Democrat majority referred SR 132 to the chamber’s Committee on Government Operations instead of considering it for a vote following its introduction.