The lawsuit stems from the frustration that the House and Senate expressed with Whitmer’s approach towards stopping the spread of the coronavirus by keeping residents across the state at home and shutting down businesses.

According to the Associated Press, the Legislature refused to extend Whitmer’s emergency declaration in late April. However, that did not stop her from acting anyway, which the Legislature claims violates a 1976 law, which states that lawmakers get a role in emergency declarations after 28 days. While the judge did agree that the governor is not permitted to use that law to extend emergencies without input from lawmakers, he still ruled in Whitmer’s favor.

Whitmer was pleased with the decision and is planning to continue doing whatever is necessary to protect the residents of Michigan.

“She will continue to do what she’s always done: take careful, decisive actions to protect Michiganders from this unprecedented, global pandemic,” Whitmer’s office said in a written statement.

Whitmer has made some effort to ease stay at home orders, as fewer cases and deaths have been reported. Bars and restaurants in northern Michigan have been given the green light to reopen Friday morning, and the ban on certain medical procedures is expected to be lifted next week. Groups of 10 people are also now allowed to gather.

The House and Senate are planning to appeal the ruling.

“Some of the outrageousnesses of what happened at our capitol depicted some of the worst racism and awful parts of our history in this country,” Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer said Sunday on CNN.

Whitmer said the protestors carried the racist flags, nooses as well as swastikas to oppose her stay-at-home orders.

“Whether you agree with me or not, I’m working to protect your life if you live in the state of Michigan,” she said.” I am going to continue to do my job regardless of what tweets come out or what polls come out or what people think makes sense.”

Meanwhile, Donald Trump said the protesters were” very good people.

Whitmer extended Michigan’s stay-at-home order on Friday through May 15 and said outdoor work could resume next Thursday.

“We’re not in a political crisis where we should just negotiate and find some common ground here. We’re in a public health crisis,” Whitmer said.” We’re in the midst of a global pandemic that has already killed almost 4,000 people in our state.”

As of Sunday, there have been an additional 547 confirmed coronavirus cases in Michigan and 29 more deaths. This brings the total to more than 43,700 cases and 4,020 deaths.