( March 30, 2026, 12:32 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on March 30 refused to hear Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s appeal of a federal appellate court decision that rejected the state’s claim to sovereign immunity that it asserted when pipeline companies sued it for terminating an easement that is required to operate an oil and gas pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac....