THE SENATE

KA ‘AHA KENEKOA

 

INTERIM OF 2025

 

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

Senator Karl Rhoads, Chair

Senator Mike Gabbard, Vice Chair

 

 

NOTICE OF INFORMATIONAL BRIEFING

 

DATE:

Thursday, August 14, 2025

TIME:

10:00 a.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 016 & Videoconference

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

 

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BUILDING HOURS: 7AM TO 5PM, MONDAY - FRIDAY

 

A live stream of all Senate Standing Committee meetings will be available on the Senate YouTube Channel.

 

 

A G E N D A

 

The purpose of this informational briefing is for the Committee to receive an update from the Department of the Attorney General about litigation where the State of Hawaiʻi is the lead plaintiff or part of a coalition of plaintiffs that have filed a lawsuit against the President and his administration.

 

1.     Welcome and Introductions (10 mins)

 

2.     Attorney General Anne Lopez, Solicitor General Kalikoʻonālani Fernandes, and Special Assistant to the Attorney General Dave Day, Department of the Attorney General (30 mins)

 

3.     Questions from the Committee – 5 minutes per member for questions and answers (25 min)

 

 

Briefing Materials

 

No public testimony will be accepted.

 

For special assistance: The cable TV broadcast and/or live stream of this meeting will include closed captioning. If you need an auxiliary aid/service or other accommodation due to a disability, please call the committee clerk at the telephone number listed below or email JDCcommittee@capitol.hawaii.gov. Requests made as early as possible have a greater likelihood of being fulfilled.

 

FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT (808) 586-6130.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Senator Karl Rhoads

Chair

 

 

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Senator Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate