Thursday, March 28, 2024
Hawai'i Free Press

Current Articles | Archives

Thursday, September 6, 2018
Hirono: Kavanaugh 'Critical' 8th Vote in Rice v Cayetano
By Andrew Walden @ 3:01 PM :: 6930 Views :: Hawaii History, Judiciary, OHA

by Andrew Walden

In 1995 the corrupt “Broken Trust” trustees of Kamehameha Schools commissioned ex-Governor John Waihee to investigate relocating KSBE’s legal domicile outside Hawaii. His recommendation: Relocate to the Cheyenne River Sioux Indian Reservation. The advantage? Cheyenne River is the most “sovereign” of all the Indian reservations. It has its own tribal police force, judiciary, legislature and presidency. It has “government to government” relations with the US and is not subject to any state and many federal laws. Attorney General Margery Bronster explained: "They were into empire building instead of working for the education of Hawaiian children."

The first version of the Akaka Bill was introduced to Congress six months after the Bishop Estate Trustees were forced to resign. Why move to a mainland Indian Reservation when OHA can build a “Hawaiian” Indian Reservation?

Fast-forward to 2018. 

It has been years since anyone in Congress has introduced any version of the Akaka Bill.  But the Broken Trust effort to turn native Hawaiians into a fake Indian tribe in order to create a legal jurisdiction behind which the legions of criminals in Hawaii's political class could then conduct their illegal activities without fear of prosecution is suddenly and momentarily front-and-center as Hawaii Senator Mazie Hirono and California Senator Kamala Harris flail away at President Donald J Trump’s latest Supreme Court nominee.

Will Justice Brett Kavanaugh become the ‘critical’ 8th vote against racially discriminatory OHA elections?  Even worse—could Kavanaugh become the ‘decisive’ 10th vote against the Hawaii Supreme Court’s Ceded Lands Decision.  Or maybe Hirono is afraid Kavanaugh will be the fifth vote against Nai Aupuni.

Here is the play-by-play from US Senate hearings on the Kavanaugh nomination, Wednesday, September 5, 2018:

 

Sen. Mazie Hirono Launches Into Kavanaugh Witch Hunt Over MeToo, Hawaii, and Leftist 'Studies'

PJ Media:  …the senator then proceeded to discuss an 18-year-old Supreme Court case in which Kavanaugh wrote an amicus brief (and a Wall Street Journal op-ed), Rice v. Cayetano (2000). After three minutes of parsing each of Kavanaugh's arguments and attacking them as deeply offensive, Hirono asked him an oddly specific question about an email in 2002.

During Hirono's diatribe, Kavanaugh attempted to get a word in edgewise. As the senator declared, "Let me tell you why each of these assertions are wrong," he responded, "The Supreme Court agreed, 7 to 2." Hirono continued, and at one point she paused.

"May I respond to that?" Kavanaugh asked. "Let me get to my question," the senator shot back.

Finally, after her pontificating speech about how Kavanaugh is such an offensive and disgusting person, Hirono asked about a specific email.

The judge responded, "So Senator, first of all, I appreciate your perspective. The amicus brief I wrote, the Supreme Court agreed with it, by a 7-2 decision written by Justice Kennedy."

"In the case, just so I'm clear, it was a state office that denied African Americans the ability to vote in that state office. Latinos and other people were denied the ability to vote for a state office, and the question was whether that was permissible under the Constitution, and the Supreme Court by a 7 to 2 majority..." Kavanaugh began.

Hirono then cut him off once again. "I attended that Supreme Court hearing, and I believe that one of the reasons they kept asking, trying to figure out whether native Hawaiians constitute tribes is probably because of the amicus that you put in there," she said. Indeed, Kavanaugh argued that native Hawaiians did not constitute Native American tribes under federal law. But this argument came up 18 years ago, and the Supreme Court agreed with him.

Then, laughably, the senator attacked the nominee, saying, "You didn't answer my question." Perhaps because she didn't let him?

At last, Kavanaugh was able to address the email, which was technically Hirono's "question." "That's an email 16 years ago. I don't recall what I was thinking about," he said.

Finally, Hirono got to the crux of the issue. She asked Kavanaugh if he thought Rice v. Cayetano "raises constitutional questions when Congress passes laws to benefit native Hawaiians." Only this issue would have any bearing on the nominee's Supreme Court jurisprudence.

Kavanaugh gave a clear and succinct answer. "I think Congress's power when it come to an issue like that is substantial," he said. "Congress has substantial power with respect to programs like this. The specific case was about election to a state office."

Even so, Hirono pressured him further on the question. She commented, "One would hope that the advocates would actually proffer facts to the court, and that is not what you did when you filed your amicus to the court." Then she proceeded to comment that the nominee's "argument raises a significant question about how you would rule on the constitutionality of programs benefitting Alaska Natives."…. 

(Translation: This is a long-winded attempt to flip the two Alaska Senators’ votes against Kavanaugh by conflating the federal recognition of tribal native Alaskan communities with non-tribal native Hawaiians.) 

SA: Yes, Hirono's Show was all About Flipping Alaska Senators 

ANN: Kavanaugh Bad for Alaska’s Tribes (see how this works?)

read … Sen. Mazie Hirono Launches Into Kavanaugh Witch Hunt Over MeToo, Hawaii, and Leftist 'Studies'

  *   *   *   *   *

Kamala Harris: Rice v Cayetano a White Supremacist Dog

PJ:Media …turned to her other white supremacist witch hunt topic. "Have you ever heard the term 'racial spoils system'?" she asked.

After the nominee admitted that he had, Harris pointed to his Wall Street Journalop-ed explaining his amicus brief in the Supreme Court case Rice v. Cayetano (2000). In that op-ed, Kavanaugh used the term "racial spoils system" twice. Harris asked what the term "racial spoils system" means to the nominee.

"I'm not sure what I was referring to then. But what I do know is that the Supreme Court, on a 7-2 margin..." agreed with his position.

Harris again cut him off. "Are you aware that the term is commonly used by white supremacists?" she asked.

"Senator, when I wrote that, that was 20 years ago, in the context of a voting restriction that denied African-Americans and Latinos the ability to vote in Hawaii, I was representing a client when I articulated that," Kavanaugh responded.

Harris went on to call "racial spoils system" a "loaded term," essentially a dog whistle for white supremacy….

CB: Why Brett Kavanaugh Scares Advocates of Turning Native Hawaiians into an Indian Tribe

read … Kamala Harris Harasses Kavanaugh on Robert Mueller, Charlottesville, 'White Supremacist' Terms

Big Q: Should Brett Kavanaugh be confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court?

Background:

Links

TEXT "follow HawaiiFreePress" to 40404

Register to Vote

2aHawaii

808 Silent Majority

Aloha Pregnancy Care Center

AntiPlanner

Antonio Gramsci Reading List

A Place for Women in Waipio

Ballotpedia Hawaii

Broken Trust

Build More Hawaiian Homes Working Group

Christian Homeschoolers of Hawaii

Cliff Slater's Second Opinion

DVids Hawaii

FIRE

Fix Oahu!

Frontline: The Fixers

Genetic Literacy Project

Grassroot Institute

Habele.org

Hawaii Aquarium Fish Report

Hawaii Aviation Preservation Society

Hawaii Catholic TV

Hawaii Christian Coalition

Hawaii Cigar Association

Hawaii ConCon Info

Hawaii Debt Clock

Hawaii Defense Foundation

Hawaii Family Forum

Hawaii Farmers and Ranchers United

Hawaii Farmer's Daughter

Hawaii Federalist Society

Hawaii Federation of Republican Women

Hawaii History Blog

Hawaii Homeschool Association

Hawaii Jihadi Trial

Hawaii Legal News

Hawaii Legal Short-Term Rental Alliance

Hawaii Matters

Hawaii's Partnership for Appropriate & Compassionate Care

Hawaii Public Charter School Network

Hawaii Rifle Association

Hawaii Shippers Council

Hawaii Smokers Alliance

Hawaii State Data Lab

Hawaii Together

HIEC.Coop

HiFiCo

Hiram Fong Papers

Homeschool Legal Defense Hawaii

Honolulu Moms for Liberty

Honolulu Navy League

Honolulu Traffic

House Minority Blog

Imua TMT

Inouye-Kwock, NYT 1992

Inside the Nature Conservancy

Inverse Condemnation

Investigative Project on Terrorism

July 4 in Hawaii

Kakaako Cares

Keep Hawaii's Heroes

Land and Power in Hawaii

Legislative Committee Analysis Tool

Lessons in Firearm Education

Lingle Years

Managed Care Matters -- Hawaii

Malama Pregnancy Center of Maui

MentalIllnessPolicy.org

Military Home Educators' Network Oahu

Missile Defense Advocacy

MIS Veterans Hawaii

NAMI Hawaii

Natatorium.org

National Christian Foundation Hawaii

National Parents Org Hawaii

NFIB Hawaii News

No GMO Means No Aloha

Not Dead Yet, Hawaii

NRA-ILA Hawaii

Oahu Alternative Transport

Obookiah

OHA Lies

Opt Out Today

OurFutureHawaii.com

Patients Rights Council Hawaii

PEACE Hawaii

People vs Machine

Practical Policy Institute of Hawaii

Pritchett Cartoons

Pro-GMO Hawaii

P.U.E.O.

RailRipoff.com

Rental by Owner Awareness Assn

ReRoute the Rail

Research Institute for Hawaii USA

Rick Hamada Show

RJ Rummel

Robotics Organizing Committee

School Choice in Hawaii

SenatorFong.com

Sink the Jones Act

Statehood for Guam

Talking Tax

Tax Foundation of Hawaii

The Real Hanabusa

Time Out Honolulu

Trustee Akina KWO Columns

UCC Truths

US Tax Foundation Hawaii Info

VAREP Honolulu

Waagey.org

West Maui Taxpayers Association

What Natalie Thinks

Whole Life Hawaii

Yes2TMT