America First Policy Institute asked the Supreme Court to discipline three justices on Hawaii’s Supreme Court over a ruling in which the justices accused the high court of “white sight.”
In its seven-page letter, AFPI said the Hawaii justices — Vladimir Devens, Todd Eddins and Sabrina McKenna — ruled in a case about post-conviction relief in a July 15 ruling where they vacated a kidnapping and sexual assault conviction and ordered a new trial.
However, they dedicated nearly 10 pages of the 91-page ruling — which concerned state constitutional matters — to the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decisions regarding voting rights, abortion, gerrymandering, campaign finance, religious liberty, presidential immunity and firearms, among other topics.
Conservatives have cheered many of those rulings.
As part of the Hawaii ruling, according to AFPI’s letter, Justice Todd Eddins, writing the section, said, “The Roberts Court sees only white,” referencing the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.
“That is not blindness. That is white sight, by design,” the opinion read, according to the AFPI letter.
It also said the justices called the high court’s jurisprudence “white noise.”
AFPI cites Rule 8, which says that the high court has authority to discipline the three justices by suspending or disbarring them from practice before the Supreme Court.
The Hawaii justices are listed as members of the Supreme Court bar, according to AFPI.
A spokesperson from the Hawaii Supreme Court did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
