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Happy Constitution Day 2017
Today is Constitution Day, even though every day really is Constitution Day, no?
In that vein, here is what is probably our favorite work of modern art, a piece titled “Preamble,” which hangs in the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. Yes, those are real license plates, and when read together
Wrapping Up Our First Decade
We published our first posts on this blog on August 31, 2006, ten years ago. In law blog years, that’s a lot of time. Heck, in regular years, that’s a lot of time. In the intervening decade, we’ve nailed up quite a few posts. This one is the 3,000th, a nice even number.
It’s
Adieu, Toots
A short detour on this Monday to note the passing of the great Belgian-American jazzman Toots Thielemans. There’s no connection to the usual topics covered here, only that his music has kept us company during many long hours of writing and reading briefs and articles, soothing our nerves and inspiring us. We saw him
Taps For A Good Man, K. Mark Takai
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Yesterday came the news I’ve been dreading, but was hoping might never arrive. Congressman K. Mark Takai lost his final fight, a battle with pancreatic cancer.
I am devastated. He was not only a client, but one of the rare people in public life who actually showed political courage to do the right
Can Property Be Taken For A Project That Might Not Exist?
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Voting Overwhelmingly For Democrats Isn’t Enough – We Want Your Hearts And Minds: 9th Cir Oral Arguments In Hawaii “Open Primary” Appeal
“Help us help you.”
That was the tenor of the questions from the Ninth Circuit panel (Judges Tashima, Tallman, and Hurwitz) sitting in Portland
The Deputy AG arguing for the State started
“You Honor, my opponent’s concession that Patel forecloses his argument about the nature of the facial challenge, resolves this case in its entirety.”
Fair Housing Act And Affordable Hawaii Housing
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Thursday Reading – The Politics Of Judicial Nominations, Electing Judges: Two Sides Of The Same Coin?
Here’s what we’re reading today, two pieces on seemingly unrelated topics:
- Gideon Kanner, “Give Credit to Judge Kozinski, The Prophet,” about the bare-knuckle politics of the process for filling Justice Scalia’s spot on the Supreme Court.
- Ian Lind at Civil Beat: “Why Is This Unpopular Idea Still Alive At The
Time To Elect Hawaii’s Judges? Maybe Not Such A Bad Idea.
The Hawaii Legislature is evaluating a series of bills which, taken collectively, would radically overhaul the way judges and justices are selected for Hawaii’s state courts, and retained in office.
Currently, the system is generally modeled on the “Missouri plan,” also known as “merit selection.” Supreme Court justices and Court of Appeals and