Former Michigan governor Rick Snyder appeared in a federal courtroom in Ann Arbor on Thursday, where he told a judge that he would exercise his fifth amendment rights if called to testify in an ongoing civil trial over the Flint water crisis.
Mr Snyder, a two-term Republican governor from Battle Creek, presided over the state when the drinking water in majority-Black city of Flint was contaminated with lead — exposing some 100,000 residents to dangerously-elevated lead levels.
