Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins is at it again, turning his frustration with a criminal case on the U.S. Supreme Court in a recent ruling.
The case involved a man who was interrogated, and testimony from that interrogation was used against him, but there were no records of the interrogation via video, recording, or notes, the local elections magazine Bolts reported on Thursday.
Eddins spelled out that the Supreme Court effectively created the problem.
"No United States Supreme Court opinion has tackled the recording of custodial interrogations. If a case did, though, we would still look to our state constitution first," he wrote.
He went on to attack the conservative majority for "pitting its jurisprudence against the guarantees the state constitution can provide."
Eddins explained that the Hawaii Constitution’s due process clause “offers safety to Hawaii’s people that exceeds the federal constitution’s suddenly fluid protections."
Specifically, he's talking about the overturning of Roe v. Wade, which he wrote erased "a generations-long constitutional right, stripping autonomy from half the population, and empowering states to force birth.”
This is the second time in the past month that Eddins has taken a shot at the Court in a decision. In a case earlier this month, Eddins slipped in a line saying, “State constitutionalism makes it easy to consider Roberts Court jurisprudence white noise.”
In a ruling last year, Eddins went even further, saying that the Court was "causing chaos" in the judicial system.
