By Lori Higgins
Free Press Education Writer
Chris Armstrong is going after Andrew Shirvell’s law license.
Armstrong, the president of the Michigan Student Assembly at the University of Michigan, today filed a misconduct complaint with the Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission.
Shirvell is the Michigan assistant attorney general who has been under fire for a blog in which he attacks Armstrong, the first openly gay president of the MSA.
Armstrong is seeking an investigation, discipline and possible disbarment of Shirvell, according to a press release sent by his attorney, Deborah Gordon of Bloomfield Hills. The complaint is on the grounds that Shirvell “repeatedly harassed and defamed Armstrong in a relentless, six-month campaign of lies, dishonesty, heckling, hate speech, and even job interference."
The misconduct rule Shirvell is accused of violating says it’s professional misconduct for an lawyer to “engage in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, misrepresentation, or violation of the criminal law.”
Armstrong said in his filing that Shirvell made “obviously false, disgusting, and utterly