The Democrat-controlled Michigan Supreme Court has forced the state to scrub convicted serial child molester Larry Nassar, along with over 20,000 other sex offenders, from the state’s public sex offender registry.
On September 9, 2026, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled in People v. Eddie Lee Smith that the 2021 version of the Sex Offenders Registration Act cannot be applied to anyone whose registrable offense was committed before July 1, 2011.
The court called the current registry requirements unconstitutional ex post facto punishment.
According to the Detroit News, the opinion was unanimous.
Democratic nominees hold a 6–1 majority on that court, according to Bridge Michigan.
The sole Republican-nominated justice is Brian Zahra. Two Democrat-nominated incumbents, Chief Justice Megan Cavanagh and Justice Noah Hood, are on the November ballot.
Michigan State Police said roughly 43,000 offenders were on the registry or required to register when the order landed.
By September 11, MSP had already scrubbed more than 20,000 names. Col. James Grady II, the MSP director, made clear the agency did not write this outcome: “The MSP did not make this change to the law… Any concerns about or efforts to change the law should be directed to the state Legislature.”
Larry Nassar is one of the names that disappeared.
According to FOX 2 Detroit, the Eaton County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office confirmed Nassar was on the registry at sentencing and stayed there until last week. His state convictions came in 2018. The conduct did not.
The office said his charging documents reference crimes committed before the 2011 cutoff: “Nassar is no longer there because his conduct occurred before 2011 despite his convictions coming after.”
Fox News reported the same result. Nassar pleaded guilty to criminal sexual conduct in Ingham and Eaton counties after years of abusing athletes in his care at Michigan State and USA Gymnastics.
He was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in Ingham County and 40 to 125 years in Eaton County, on top of a 60-year federal sentence for child pornography. Searches for his name on the Michigan registry now come up empty.
He is not getting out. The ruling does not touch the prison terms. It does mean that if he were ever released, Michigan would not require him to register under the current law.
He is also not the only one.
Eaton County Prosecutor Doug Lloyd, the Republican nominee for Michigan attorney general, said the court “chose to toss the scalpel aside and use a chainsaw.”
His office named former physician Kassem Hallak, convicted in 2013 of sexually assaulting patients. Hallak has already been released and is no longer required to register.
The office also listed other Eaton County offenders convicted of sexually assaulting minors, including Damon Warner, Kevin Kalmbach, Jay Yensen, Justin Bowles, Joe Deleon, and Ernesto Uribe, who remain in prison but will return to the community with no duty to report where they live.
“To the victims and survivors of these offenses, our office is truly sorry that the person who harmed you will no longer be required to register,” the prosecutor’s office wrote.
Lloyd went further, accusing the court of “legislating from the bench” and tying the registry wipe to a broader pattern that has also put the life sentence of Oxford High School shooter Ethan Crumbley back in play.
The Gateway Pundit has covered Nassar for years. In 2023, TGP reported that the convicted child predator was stabbed multiple times inside a federal prison in Florida.
A judge in his case said he had abused “over 265 identified victims and an infinite number of victims.”
In 2022, TGP reported that Biden’s Justice Department declined to charge FBI agents who botched the Nassar investigation, a failure the Justice Department’s own inspector general said allowed dozens more girls to be abused after the bureau already had the case.
Those victims were promised the system would not look away again. Michigan’s highest court just deleted the public warning label on Nassar and more than 20,000 other sex offenders whose crimes predate a paperwork cutoff.
The convictions stand. The prison doors stay shut for Nassar. The registry does not. Parents in Michigan can no longer look these men up.
The Democrat-dominated court that ordered the purge is asking voters to send two of its members back to the bench in November.
They are Chief Justice Megan Cavanagh and Justice Noah Hood, the two Democrat-nominated incumbents whose seats are on the November 3, 2026 ballot.
Their main Republican-nominated opponents are circuit judges Casandra Morse-Bills and Michael D. Warren Jr. Thomas Howe and Jody White are also on the ballot.
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