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Saturday, July 21, 2018 |
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Kavanaugh for Supreme Court? Rice v Cayetano Front and Center
By Selected News Articles @ 1:50 AM :: 12864 Views :: National News, Hawaii History, OHA
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...In 1999 Kavanaugh helped write a friend-of-the-court brief in the Rice v Cayetano case....
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Thursday, July 12, 2018 |
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The FCC is changing up the country’s emergency alert system to prevent another Hawaii incident
By News Release @ 5:32 PM :: 6329 Views :: National News, Hawaii State Government, Military
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...Action Supports More Effective Local Emergency Alert Tests and PSAs, Addresses False Alerts, and Seeks to Improve Wireless Alerts....
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Tuesday, June 26, 2018 |
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Travel Ban Upheld 5-4
By Selected News Articles @ 3:15 PM :: 6432 Views :: National News, Law Enforcement
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..."This ruling is also a moment of profound vindication following months of hysterical commentary from the media and Democratic politicians who refuse to do what it takes to secure our border and our country."....
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Sunday, June 24, 2018 |
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Travel Ban, Forced Union Dues Decisions Coming in Supreme Court's Final Week
By Selected News Articles @ 4:12 PM :: 7169 Views :: National News, Judiciary, Labor
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...The union dues case, Janus v. AFSCME, is the latest challenge to a 1977 precedent called Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, which allows public sector unions to collect fees from non-members....
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Wednesday, June 20, 2018 |
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FCC Approves Cincinnati Bell Takeover of Hawaiian Tel
By News Release @ 2:42 PM :: 5230 Views :: National News
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...FCC action is the final regulatory approval....
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Sunday, June 10, 2018 |
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Travel Ban? Janus? Supreme Court Poised for Blockbuster Finish
By Selected News Articles @ 3:00 PM :: 7080 Views :: National News, Judiciary, Labor
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...With the U.S. Supreme Court approaching the conclusion of its 2017 – 2018 term, the justices are expected to release a deluge of decisions in the coming weeks....
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Friday, April 27, 2018 |
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American Samoa Cabotage Legislation to Promote Reliable Air Service
By News Release @ 5:57 PM :: 7962 Views :: National News, Jones Act, Small Business, Tourism
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...This solution has passed the House before, but not yet in the Senate; however, this time the provision is included in a major bill to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration....
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Wednesday, April 25, 2018 |
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Supremes Lean Toward Trump In Travel Ban Hearing
By Selected News Articles @ 3:26 PM :: 5386 Views :: National News, Law Enforcement
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...Justice Anthony Kennedy, who likely holds the deciding vote, appeared to agree, noting the order at issue was more detailed than similar proclamations issued by former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. He elsewhere rejected hypotheticals proffered by Kagan and Justice Sonia Sotomayor, noting other legal avenues exist to address the abuses envisioned in their scenarios....
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Monday, April 9, 2018 |
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Amicus Brief on Behalf of Evan McMullin et al in Hawaii v. Trump: Congress Intended to 'Eliminate All Vestiges of Discrimination'
By Selected News Articles @ 4:50 PM :: 6468 Views :: National News, Republican Party
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...The Republican Party platform of 1960 had endorsed an “immigration policy…based upon judgment of the individual merit of each applicant for admission.”....
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Tuesday, March 27, 2018 |
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US, FSM, Marshall Islands Hold Mid-Year Meetings on Compact Funding
By News Release @ 12:33 AM :: 5831 Views :: National News
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...$4.8 Million Allocated for Marshall Islands in FY 2018 and Prior Year Funds....
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Monday, March 26, 2018 |
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Omnibus Funding Bill: $123M for Palau COFA Agreement
By News Release @ 1:10 PM :: 4703 Views :: National News
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...$123 million in funding through 2024 for the 2010 Palau Compact Review Agreement as agreed to between the United States and the Republic of Palau....
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Friday, March 23, 2018 |
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Schatz: Federal Budget Includes Many Hawaii Pork Barrel Projects
By News Release @ 3:30 AM :: 6394 Views :: National News, Congressional Delegation
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... a very familiar looking laundry list of Hawaii spending allotments ....
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Saturday, March 3, 2018 |
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Trump Approves American Samoa Disaster Declaration
By News Release @ 7:53 PM :: 4154 Views :: National News
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...due to Tropical Storm Gita from February 7 to February 12, 2018....
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Saturday, February 24, 2018 |
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Trump v Hawaii: More Challengers Seek to Join Case
By Selected News Articles @ 2:56 PM :: 6300 Views :: National News, First Amendment
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...Supreme Court to hear Trump v Hawaii April 25, 2018....
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Monday, February 12, 2018 |
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Pacific Territories: Trump Admin Proposes Office of Insular Affairs Budget
By News Release @ 3:18 PM :: 5059 Views :: National News
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...President Proposes $608 Million FY 2019 Budget for the U.S. Territories and the Freely Associated States--$111 Million for Palau Compact Agreement is also requested....
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Monday, February 12, 2018 |
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TS Gita: American Samoa Emergency Declaration
By News Release @ 11:29 AM :: 4750 Views :: National News
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...Trump declared that an emergency exists in the territory of American Samoa and ordered Federal assistance to supplement response efforts in the territory due to the emergency conditions resulting from Tropical Storm Gita....
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Wednesday, February 7, 2018 |
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'Money Begins Disappearing' from Bikini Atoll Trust Fund
By Selected News Articles @ 2:27 PM :: 7110 Views :: National News, Ethics
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"...large sums being spent on things such as an airplane, two landing craft, an elaborate function in Hawaii, and cash payments to households on Ejit and Kili...."
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Sunday, February 4, 2018 |
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9th Circuit Causing Surge In Illegal Immigration, ICE Chief Says
By Selected News Articles @ 12:23 PM :: 5846 Views :: National News, Judiciary
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...the court’s decisions have created a legal environment friendly to illegal aliens....
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Friday, February 2, 2018 |
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American Samoa ID to be Rejected at Airports Starting Feb 5
By News Release @ 5:39 PM :: 7119 Views :: National News, Law Enforcement, Tourism
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...American Samoa is not in compliance with the REAL ID Act and Federal agencies will not accept driver's licenses and identification cards from American Samoa as of February 5, 2018....
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Tuesday, January 30, 2018 |
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Video and Text: President Trump State of the Union Address
By Video @ 11:15 PM :: 4941 Views :: National News
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...As long as we are proud of who we are and what we are fighting for, there is nothing we cannot achieve. As long as we have confidence in our values, faith in our citizens, and trust in our God, we will never fail....
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Thursday, January 11, 2018 |
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Compact Impact Bill Reintroduced: Democrats Complaining About Cost of COFA Immigrants
By News Release @ 12:19 AM :: 7032 Views :: National News, Congressional Delegation
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...to provide additional federal resources to Guam, Hawai’i, the CNMI, American Samoa, and other jurisdictions affected by migrants from the Freely Associated States....
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Saturday, January 6, 2018 |
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Supreme Court Justices asked to uphold third Trump immigration order
By Selected News Articles @ 9:51 PM :: 6123 Views :: National News, Law Enforcement
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...This request, in a case from Hawaii, is the first of two that the government is expected to file....
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Saturday, December 23, 2017 |
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150M Muslims Barred: Ninth Circuit Finds Trump’s 3rd Travel Ban Illegal
By Selected News Articles @ 2:03 PM :: 4675 Views :: National News
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...the president’s efforts to bar over 150 million nationals of six Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States....
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Friday, December 22, 2017 |
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SCOTUS Keeps Rebuking Lower Courts That Rule Against Trump
By Selected News Articles @ 3:00 PM :: 6778 Views :: National News, Judiciary
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...the justices have issued several fairly extraordinary orders in cases involving the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and the latest iteration of the travel ban, which deals rather harshly with trial courts in California, Hawaii and Maryland....
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Sunday, December 17, 2017 |
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Defense Department to Investigate Chinese Aid to Micronesia
By Selected News Articles @ 2:09 PM :: 13172 Views :: National News, Ethics, Military
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...islanders to trade in “U.S. government handouts, which are scheduled to end in 2023, for the wide-open promise of Chinese-style capitalism....”
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Friday, December 15, 2017 |
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Congress Approves Renewed Palau COFA Agreement
By News Release @ 12:54 PM :: 6448 Views :: National News, Military
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...Signed into law yesterday by the President, the enactment officially authorizes the strategic agreement signed between the United States and Palau governments in 2010....
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Thursday, December 7, 2017 |
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Ninth Circuit Wrestles With Unblocking Trump’s Travel Ban
By Selected News Articles @ 1:12 AM :: 4543 Views :: National News
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...A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit heard arguments Wednesday....
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Monday, December 4, 2017 |
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7-2 Supreme Court Allows Latest Travel Ban To Take Full And Immediate Effect
By Selected News Articles @ 4:56 PM :: 4322 Views :: National News
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...The Department of Justice asked the justices to lift lower court orders barring enforcement of the proclamation while legal challenges are adjudicated....
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Tuesday, November 28, 2017 |
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Hawaii v Trump: Back to the Supreme Court Again
By Selected News Articles @ 5:55 PM :: 5950 Views :: National News, Law Enforcement
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...Challengers in Hawaii and Maryland responded today to the government’s request to have the Supreme Court intervene....
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Friday, November 24, 2017 |
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A Dozen States Back Travel Ban 3.0 At The Supreme Court
By Selected News Articles @ 4:02 AM :: 4550 Views :: National News
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...“We’re hopeful the Supreme Court will agree with our coalition that the travel ban is lawful and constitutional, and should be enforced in its entirety.”....
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Tuesday, November 21, 2017 |
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Justice Department goes back to Supreme Court over Hawaii judge's block of Trump's travel ban
By Selected News Articles @ 2:05 AM :: 5926 Views :: National News, Law Enforcement
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...the Justice Department asked the Supreme Court on Monday night to lift the lower courts' blockades....
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Monday, November 13, 2017 |
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Ninth Circuit Partly Lifts Trump Travel Ban Blockade
By Selected News Articles @ 2:51 PM :: 6351 Views :: National News, Law Enforcement
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... The Ninth Circuit on Monday partly granted an emergency motion by the Trump administration and lifted a preliminary stay on most aspects of President Donald Trump’s ban on entry into the United States ....
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Friday, November 3, 2017 |
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GOP Tax Plan Will End Federal Subsidy for Unaffordable Housing and High Tax Localities
By Americans for Tax Reform @ 4:10 AM :: 9681 Views :: National News, Republican Party, Tax Credits, Taxes, Cost of Living
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...repeals the state and local tax deduction for income and sales taxes and caps the SALT deduction for property taxes at $10,000. The home mortgage interest is grandfathered in and preserved for new homes up to $500,000....
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Monday, October 30, 2017 |
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Getting Tired? Only Six States Join Chin Suit vs Trump Travel Ban 3.0
By News Release @ 9:32 PM :: 4718 Views :: National News
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...California, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, and Washington today filed a motion to intervene....
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Thursday, October 26, 2017 |
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Over $685K Stolen from Two Marshall Islands Trust Funds
By News Release @ 5:13 PM :: 7617 Views :: National News, Ethics
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"...State Street is in the process of reimbursing all funds fraudulently transferred out of a separate account which is managed and administered solely by the RMI Government...."
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Wednesday, October 25, 2017 |
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Supreme Court Dismisses Hawaii Lawsuit Against Trump Travel Ban 2.0
By Selected News Articles @ 2:06 PM :: 4886 Views :: National News
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...meanwhile Trump Set to Appeal Hawaii Court Rejection of Travel Ban 3.0....
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Wednesday, October 18, 2017 |
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Hawaii AG Sues Feds for Records on Deportation of Illegals
By Selected News Articles @ 3:40 PM :: 7063 Views :: National News, Law Enforcement
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“The federal government has significantly increased its immigration enforcement activities, including, for example, a nearly 40 percent increase in arrests within the first four months of 2017,” the complaint states....
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Tuesday, October 17, 2017 |
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Hawaii Judge Blocks Trump’s New Travel Ban. Again.
By News Release @ 3:30 PM :: 5562 Views :: National News, Law Enforcement
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...U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson of the District of Hawaii issued a temporary restraining order against the ban Tuesday....
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Thursday, October 12, 2017 |
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Hawaii AG Obstructs Requests on How Much Taxpayer Funds Are Being Spent Fighting Trump’s Travel Ban
By Selected News Articles @ 1:57 PM :: 8552 Views :: National News, Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Law Enforcement
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...the Hawaii AG office denied the public interest fee waiver request and charged $28,396.30 to complete the document search....
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Wednesday, October 11, 2017 |
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SCOTUS Backs Trump, Dismisses Travel Ban Challenge
By Selected News Articles @ 3:03 PM :: 5862 Views :: National News, Law Enforcement
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...Tuesday’s order strongly suggests that the justices will dismiss the Hawaii case once the refugee resettlement provision terminates....
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Tuesday, October 10, 2017 |
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Chin, Muslims Sue to Block Travel Ban 3.0
By News Release @ 9:37 PM :: 7610 Views :: National News, Law Enforcement, Religion
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'...it continues to effectuate the President’s unrepudiated promise to exclude Muslims from the United States...."
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Friday, September 29, 2017 |
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Feds Sue Guam Over 'Chamorro Land Trust'
By News Release @ 1:22 AM :: 7007 Views :: DHHL, National News
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...Chamorro Land Trust (CLT) is modeled on DHHL--but CLT is vulnerable to this litigation because, unlike DHHL, CLT not an act of the US Congress written into the Admission Act of a State....
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Wednesday, September 27, 2017 |
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Hanabusa Blocks Missile Defense for Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 7:12 PM :: 9858 Views :: National News
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...Hanabusa said operationalizing Aegis Ashore on Kauai would interfere with PMRF's missile testing and compromise the military's relationship with the local community....
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Monday, September 25, 2017 |
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Supreme Court Justices Cancel Travel Ban Hearing
By Selected News Articles @ 11:50 PM :: 5720 Views :: National News, Law Enforcement
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...The likely practical effect, it appears, would be that the planned review simply will not occur, and that the new action would be met with new lawsuits, starting all over in the lower federal courts. ...
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Monday, September 11, 2017 |
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Travel Ban: Supreme Court Slaps Down 9th Circuit
By Selected News Articles @ 3:35 PM :: 4970 Views :: National News
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...Justice Anthony Kennedy acted quickly on the government’s request: This afternoon he stayed the lower court’s ruling and ordered the challengers to respond by noon tomorrow....
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Saturday, September 9, 2017 |
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Hurricane Irma: Hawaii Red Cross Volunteers Heading to Florida
By News Release @ 3:22 PM :: 6215 Views :: National News, Republican Party
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...I will be going as part of the Red Cross Shelter Management Team. We’ll be setting up and managing a shelter for Florida families affected by Hurricane Irma....
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Saturday, September 9, 2017 |
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Honolulu to hold 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony
By News Release @ 3:15 PM :: 10531 Views :: Honolulu County, National News, Military, Police
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...The ceremony will be held on Monday, September 11, beginning at 10 a.m. in front of the Eternal Flame Monument on the front lawn of Honolulu Hale featuring Honolulu’s first responders and airline representatives....
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Friday, September 8, 2017 |
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Travel Ban: 9th Circuit Court Rules Against Trump (again)
By Selected News Articles @ 3:08 AM :: 4555 Views :: National News
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...The celebration may be short-lived however, as the Supreme Court will take up the legality of the travel ban with oral arguments slated for Oct. 10....
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