“Election contests” in Hawaii are pretty narrow cases, and are subject to strict rules regarding subject matter jurisdiction (the Hawaii Supreme Court has original jurisdiction), content, timing,and remedy. For more, see our earlier post “HAWSCT Confirms Election Contests Are Tough!” Thus, even when an election challenge may have merit, the road is an uphill
Friday Reading: SCOTUSblog’s Shout-Out; 9th Circuit Says Church Bogarted Evidence In Cannabis Claim; Are Agencies To Blame For Telescope Delay?; WWII Guam Land Seizures Case Moves Forward
Here’s what we are reading today:
- Here’s the equivalent of law blogger nirvana: a link to one of your pieces by SCOTUSblog: “There is still more commentary on Monday’s ruling in Evenwel v. Abbott, holding that states and local governments may use total population to draw legislative districts. In posts at casetext, Robert
What Does Evenwel v. Abbott Mean For “One Person, One Vote?”
Yet another detour back to our second favorite topic, election law.
Casetext asked us to provide some commentary and analysis of the Supreme Court’s recent Evenwel opinion, and we produced this piece (“What Does Evenwel v. Abbott Mean For ‘One Person, One Vote?’“), which is a refinement of our earlier blog
Mantras Without Meanings (We Takings Lawyers Predicted This One) – 8-0 SCOTUS Rules States May Count Everyone In Reapportionment
Who must may be counted for reapportionment purposes?
Everyone!
A slight detour from our usual fare, to post some thoughts about today’s big U.S. Supreme Court opinion on election law in Evenwel v. Abbott, No. 14-940. Evenwel is the sleeper case of the Term, and opened the possibility that the we might
Latest On The Hawaiians-Only Oprah Election: Nai Aupuni’s Response To SCOTUS Contempt Motion
Nai Aupuni and the Akamai Foundation, the proponents and organizers of the Native Hawaiians-only “Oprah” election for delegates to a convention to organize a new Hawaiian government, have responded to the election objectors’ SCOTUS motion for contempt.
The Motion for Civil Contempt asked the Supreme Court to slap the State, the Governor, OHA and its
“Mistakes Were Made” – Elections Office Practices Are Not “Rules”
Here’s one that combines two of our practice areas, election and admin law. Land users should also pay attention because admin law issues frequently arise there, also.
In Green Party of Hawaii v. Nago, No. CAAP-14-0001313 (Dec. 18, 2015), the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals concluded that certain practices by the State Office of
More SCOTUS Action In Oprah/Everyone Wins Election
Here’s your daily dose of election law action (don’t worry, land users, we’ve got one of those in the hopper for today as well), the latest on what has been labeled the “Costco” election and the “Oprah” election. The former premised on the notion that a seat at the convention now has all the
What Is The Office Of Hawaiian Affairs, Asks Op-Ed. Short Answer: A “Public Agency”
An op-ed piece in today’s Star-Advertiser by Judge (Ret.) Walter Heen and U. Hawaii lawprof Randy Roth asks “What is OHA?“
For those of you who don’t already know, “OHA” is the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, a governmental entity created by the 1978 amendments to the Hawaii Constitution. But what the acronym
Latest On The Hawaiians-Only-Oprah/Costco-Everyone-Wins Election
Here’s the latest on the now-cancelled “Nai Aupuni” Hawaiians-only poll/election, described by one local commentator as having “the integrity of a Costco membership,” and by Election law maven Rick Hasen as the “Oprah” theory of elections after the organization cancelled the extended vote and invited all candidates to come to the convention once
Op-Ed: In SCOTUS One-Person, One-Vote Case, Hawaii Might Finally Be Forced To Include Military Among ‘We The People’
Today, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser published an op-ed by me, Col. David Brostrom (U.S. Army, retired), Rep. Mark Takai, who represents Hawaii’s First Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, and Andrew Walden, editor and publisher of Hawaii Free Press, about the case, argued this morning in the U.S. Supreme Court about who