Kavanaugh questioned whether Native Hawaiians were indigenous and deserving of similar rights as Am

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Brett Kavanaugh penned another op-ed for the @WSJ. Here's one he wrote in 1999 in which he questioned whether Native Hawaiians were indigenous and deserving of similar rights as American Indian tribes https://turtletalk.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/are_hawaiians_indians_the_jus.pdf … …




Nick Grube
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Oct 5

Time to drop some context...
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Nick Grube
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Oct 5

When Kavanaugh wrote his he was working on behalf of the Center for Equal Opportunity, a right-leaning think tank with affirmative action views
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Nick Grube
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Oct 5

He co-authored an amicus brief expressing these same views with Robert Bork, whose nomination to the Supreme Court was previously rejected by the Senate
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Nick Grube
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Oct 5

On the 1st day of Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings a Native Hawaiian law professor told me this:

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[JI7]

1. one of the reasons the republicans support him so much

[riversedge]

2. It's more than about race and ethnicity. It's about what is "owed" to indigenous people

Nick Grube
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Oct 5

As a UCLA professor, also part-Hawaiian, put it to me: It's more than about race and ethnicity. It’s about what is “owed” to indigenous people

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[FBaggins]

3. Was he their attorney in this case?

If so... we don’t really know his position. His job would have been to present his client’s position.

[Iliyah]

4. This was another reason why the Native Alaskans

wanted a not vote.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. Hawaiians -- see Puerto Rico

Wouldn't surprise me if these vile bastards planned to remove a star and 'privatize' Hawaii.

[onenote]

6. Where do the other four republicans stand on this issue?

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If they don’t take the same position as Kavanaugh his view isn’t going to change anything. If they do share the same view then it’s extremely likely that anyone else trump might have nominated also would share that view.

[FBaggins]

10. Chances are pretty good that they agree

It's worth noting that the case involved went to the Supreme Court at the time and only two justices (Ginsburg and Souter IIRC) disagreed with the reasoning.

[lunatica]

7. This kind of "legal Constitutional argument"

Give me a gag reflex. The depth of hatred one must feel for their fellow humans to want to take their rights away is breathtaking and ugly beyond belief!

[Harker]

8. Center for Equal Opportunity?

How Orwellian.

[dalton99a]

9. Kick