Will Hawaiʻi’s Supreme Court Curb Governor’s Power To Suspend Laws?

By Stewart Yerton 

 

Gov. Josh Green has issued more than 90 emergency proclamations during less than three years in office. Now the Hawaii Supreme Court may soon define the scope of the governor’s power to issue such executive orders and suspend laws with the stroke of a pen.

The ability of citizens to challenge statewide emergency orders in court is also under review.

The emergency proclamation at issue relates to housing development, and whether Hawaiʻi’s decades-old housing shortage represents the sort of disaster that triggers Green’s ability to declare a state of emergency and suspend laws in response…

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