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Andrew Shirvell, the assistant attorney general under fire for his attacks on a University of Michigan student, has been fired.
A hearing that was supposed to be held Tuesday was moved up to this afternoon. Philip Thomas, Shirvell’s attorney, said he showed up for the meeting and was read one sentence.
“They said essentially that as a result of Andrew’s conduct, it’s become impossible for him to carry out his duties as an attorney general.”
Shirvell had been criticized for his blog in which he calls Chris Armstrong, the president of the Michigan Student Assembly, a radical homosexual, a Nazi and Satan’s representative on the assembly. Thomas had said his client is expressing his free-speech rights.