"While these criticisms mark an important spark of dissent, they sound downright timid compared to recent excoriations of SCOTUS out of Hawaii's highest court. In particular, Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins has emerged as one of the judiciary's most astute and merciless critics of the Roberts court. In both concurrences and majority opinions, Eddins has taken aim at SCOTUS' radical expansion of gun rights, disregard for women's equality, and embrace of plutocracy, among other travesties."
"In his opinions-as well as in an interview with Amicus last year-the justice has laid out a comprehensive critique of the "horrors and treachery" that SCOTUS passes off under the guise of "originalism." Last week, Justice Eddins dropped another withering indictment of the Supreme Court's recent rulings, using its embrace of Christian nationalism as a jumping-off point."
A growing number of sitting judges have expressed public skepticism toward the Supreme Court as its conservative supermajority reshapes law to favor Donald Trump and conservative causes. Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins has delivered particularly forceful judicial critiques, issuing concurrences and majority opinions that condemn the Court's expansion of gun rights, setbacks to women's equality, and alignment with plutocratic interests. Eddins has labeled the Court's originalist approach as enabling "horrors and treachery." In a recent opinion he targeted the Court's embrace of Christian nationalism and addressed a property case involving a deed restriction requiring land use for "Church purposes only."
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