‘Who would believe … U.S. citizens are being denied access to the right to vote’
A move is under way in Hawaii – and has been pushed by the Obama administration – regarding the “sovereignty” of native Hawaiians, and as part of that an enrollment list of qualified people is being assembled for an election on that question.
And it’s getting the state sued.
Officials with the Washington watchdog Judicial Watch said on Thursday the Obama White House has been criticized already for taking “executive action” toward the “reestablishment of a government-to-government relationship with the native Hawaiian community,” whose members are citizens of the United States since the state was added to the nation in the 1950s.
But what’s drawing the lawsuit is the plan to sort voters by race and perspective, and then only allow certain people to vote on the scheme for native Hawaiian “self-government.”
“Who would believe that in this day and age U.S. citizens are being denied access to the right to vote explicitly because of their race and their points of view,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton in a prepared statement.
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