U.S. Supreme Court

Camron Hurt, the Hawaiʻi State Director of nonpartisan watchdog group Common Cause, discusses the U.S. Supreme Court's final rulings for 2026.

HPR’s Cassie Ordonio reports on a super typhoon passing through Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands; Common Cause Hawaii director Camron Hurt discusses the U.S. Supreme Court’s final rulings for 2026.

Wookie Kim, legal director at the ACLU of Hawaiʻi, speaks about the U.S. Supreme Court rulings on birthright citizenship and transgender athletes' participation in school sports.

ACLU of Hawaiʻi Legal Director Wookie Kim speaks on the U.S. Supreme Court rulings on birthright citizenship and transgender athletes; Maya Soetoro-Ng, sister to Barack Obama, reflects on the opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago.

The new Hawaii law is aimed at curbing what is often called "dark money" in politics.

Tom Moore of the Center for American Progress spoke to HPR's Maddie Bender about the national plan to take down Citizens United.

Lawmakers in Hawaiʻi have passed a measure that's headed to the governor that would redefine corporations in a way that precludes spending on elections.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Karl Rhoads has introduced two bills that explore a new legal approach aimed at effectively barring corporations from donating to Hawaiʻi political campaigns at the local, state and federal levels.

Duke Law School Second Amendment scholar Hayley Lawrence spoke with HPR’s Maddie Bender about the Supreme Court case Wolford v. Lopez, and the implications for Hawaiʻi.

The U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments today in a case challenging a 2023 Hawaiʻi law that bans firearms by default on private property; The state Legislature convenes a new session tomorrow