Hawai'i Supreme Court - Granillo vs. Hawai'i - Hawai'i Supreme Court states "We take no guidance on the meaning of due process from (SCOTUS)"

https://law.justia.com/cases/hawaii/supreme-court/2026/scwc-22-0000740.html

Not withstanding the facts of the case, Hawai'i's Supreme Court has some choice words for SCOTUS after the state's recent loss in *Wolford*.

Page 73:

> The Court that now defines federal due process does not honor the work of 1954.It revives the work of 1857. The work of 1896. The Constitution must be interpreted “according to its true intent and meaning when it was adopted.” Dred Scott v. Sandford

> Today’s hubristic originalists use the same method to control modern life. SeeCity & Cnty. of Honolulu v. Sunoco LP, 153 Hawaiʻi 326, 361, 537 P.3d 1173, 1208 (2023) (Eddins, J., concurring) (“A justice’s personal values and ideas about the very old days suddenly control the lives of present and future generations.”).

> The Court overrides what Congress passed. It overrides what the people chose. All to serve its own ends.

> What this Court has done to constitutional rights, democratic institutions, and the rule of law explains why Hawaiʻi’s Constitution takes no instruction from it.

Page 74:

> The Roberts Court did what Congress never would. It rewrote the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a cornerstone of American civil rights, democratically enacted and repeatedly reauthorized.

There are others and I suggest you read and bring them up as you see fit.

But I find it quite telling that the majority opinion of a state supreme court would put this in writing, I find it quite unprofessional.