Hawaii Justice Tells U.S. Supreme Court His Court Will Take 'No Guidance' From It

Executive Briefing

• Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins vowed his court will take 'no guidance' from the U.S. Supreme Court in a 72-page opinion.
• Constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley called the language 'chest-thumping' passive aggression, noting Supreme Court jurisdiction over states is 210 years old.
• Eddins attacked the Roberts Court over Dobbs, racial discrimination rulings, and firearms decisions, claiming justices 'see only white.'
• Iowa Solicitor General Eric Wessan called the opinion an 'unhinged attack on the legitimacy of the Supreme Court,' saying he'd never seen anything like it.
• Turley concluded Eddins' opinion amounts to 'virtue signaling,' as Hawaii courts remain bound by binding federal precedent regardless of personal objections.