The Governor has filed his Answer to the Star-Advertiser‘s complaint in the case in which the Star-Advertiser is asking the circuit court to order the Governor to release to the public the list of judicial nominees presented to him by the Judicial Selection Commission, now that the Hawaii Senate has consented to the Governor’s appointment of Justice McKenna. The Governor refused the Star-Advertiser‘s multiple requests, notwithstanding the Office of Information Practices’ opinion that the list must be disclosed because any justification for withholding “would end once a nominee is confirmed by the Senate.”
Read the story in the Star-Advertiser here.
Disclosure: we represent the Star-Advertiser in this case.
Answer, Star-Advertiser v Abercrombie (filed Sep 12 2011)