What hypotheticals did I make?
Do you think everyone here read all 53 pages or instead read/listened to summaries?
Stop trying to start more fights just to fight.
So, unless everyone else reads all 53 pages, you aren't motivated to read them either?
This is why your comment was not well received.
"On top of that the HI SC didn't defy a ruling from SCOTUS either. The real problem is if SCOTUS ruled something and a lower court refused to comply with the ruling and state government disobeyed the SCOTUS ruling."
The brief says the HI court does not agree with the SCOTUS ruling in Bruen.
Sounds like they are defying a ruling from SCOTUS by refusing to follow it as
the "law of the land."
Some excerpts:
- When the two contain look-alike
provisions, Hawaiʻi has chosen not to lockstep with the Supreme
Court’s interpretation of the federal constitution.
Rather, this court frequently walks another way. Long ago,
the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court announced that an “opinion of the
United States Supreme Court . . . is merely another source of
authority, admittedly to be afforded respectful consideration,
but which we are free to accept or reject in establishing the
outer limits of protection afforded by . . . the Hawaiʻi
Constitution.” State v. Kaluna, 55 Haw. 361, 369 n.6, 520 P.2d
51, 58 n.6 (1974). Further, “this court has not hesitated to
adopt the dissents in U.S. Supreme Court cases when it was
believed the dissent was better reasoned than the majority
opinion.” State v. Mundon, 129 Hawaiʻi 1, 18 n.25, 292 P.3d 205,
222 n.25 (2012).
- Because the text of article I, section 17, its purpose, and
Hawaiʻi’s historical tradition of weapons regulation support a
collective, militia meaning, we hold that the Hawaiʻi
Constitution does not afford a right to carry firearms in public
places for self-defense.
That last one defies several SCOTUS rulings that affirmed and reaffirmed that the right to keep and bear arms is, and always has been, an individual right.
The challenge made its way to the Supreme Court, which, in a 5-4 decision
authored by Justice Antonin Scalia, concluded that the Second Amendment
provides an individual right to keep and bear arms for lawful purposes.
https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/zdvxnxaqbvx/02082024hawaii.pdfHawaii is basically acting as a soverign entity with no acknowledgement that anything decided in the federal courts outside of the state holds any weight.
If they don't like a ruling, they just ignore it. Unless Congress follows through and incorporates a SCOTUS decision in the associated laws, Hawaii has no duty to abide by it.
Now, go do your homework.