HONOLULU — Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh wrote that “any program targeting Native Hawaiians as a group is subject to strict scrutiny and of questionable validity under the Constitution,” according to a confidential email released by U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono this morning.
HONOLULU — Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh wrote that “any program targeting Native Hawaiians as a group is subject to strict scrutiny and of questionable validity under the Constitution,” according to a confidential email released by U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono this morning.
Kavanaugh’s 2002 email was written during his time serving in President George W. Bush’s administration, according to a Thursday report by the Honolulu Star-Advertiser.
Kavanaugh was advising the Treasury Department on upcoming testimony related to capital investment in “Indian country.”
The Star-Advertiser reported that Hirono tweeted: “These are the docs R(epublicans) don’t want you to see—because they show that Judge Kavanaugh wrongly believes that Native Hawaiian programs are Constitutionally questionable. I defy anyone reading this to be able to conclude that it should be deemed confidential in any way, shape, or form.”
The tweet also included a copy of the emails.
Hirono, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, also grilled Kavanaugh during Wednesday’s confirmation hearings on his views on Native Hawaiians.
The best thing about Mazie’s 31-minute rant against Kavanaugh in Wednesday’s confirmation hearing, and her release of the 1-page memo, is that the public has now become aware of very strong medicine against Hawaiian racial entitlement programs and the concept of a Hawaiian tribe.
It’s sad that this newspaper has utterly failed to make available the two very important documents written by Judge Kavanaugh, which were the focus of Mazie’s rant. And indeed, this newspaper has failed to let readers see the 31-minute video of Mazie’s rant which Mazie was so pleased with that she had her minions publish the video on YouTube.
I have done this newspaper’s work for it, by making those things easily available. Please enjoy laughing at Mazie’s ridiculous performance by watching the video. But more importantly, please read Judge Kavanaugh’s two items from 1999: a very detailed, heavily footnoted amicus brief he wrote for the Supreme Court’s case Rice v. Cayetano, and the short commentary he wrote in the Wall Street Journal.
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Racialist partisans think the reasoning provided by Kavanaugh is so despicable that merely displaying it will cause revulsion. But I think Kavanaugh’s reasoning is powerful and important for Hawaii’s people to read, and it’s mostly censored by Hawaii’s media. Powerful medicine to help cure us from disastrous policies.