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The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 18 stories to Hawaii since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from Hawaii.
36days until Election Day, Nov. 3In Hawaii
10 storiesJustice Department sues Hawaii, Arkansas, Utah and DC over in-state tuition for undocumented students, completing suits against every state with such laws, 25 total.
Arkansas agrees its law is preempted
Hawaii grand jury indicts Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke on bribery and conspiracy charges tied to a 2022 payoff probe, along with four others.
Ex-state official found most culpable
A Washington Post investigation reports that confidential memos appear to show former DNI Tulsi Gabbard's childhood guru secretly guiding her conduct in Congress.
She echoed the talking points on TV
Federal judge vacates RFK Jr.'s declaration targeting gender-affirming care, ruling HHS exceeded its authority and calling the approach "break it and see."
21 states sued, summary judgment granted
Education Department opens 18 Title IX investigations into schools with policies allowing transgender athletes, one day after Supreme Court heard arguments on state bans.
NYC, Hawaii schools targeted
Federal judge orders Energy Department to restore clean energy grants after administration admitted in court that blue-state location was "a primary reason" for cancellations.
$8 billion in grants affected
The Supreme Court strikes down Hawaii's law requiring permission before carrying firearms into stores and other businesses open to the public.
Second gun-rights ruling in a week
Hawaii's governor signs law redefining corporations to bar election spending, taking aim at Citizens United through novel state-level strategy.
Own AG opposed defending it in court
FBI Director Patel took undisclosed "VIP snorkel" around USS Arizona last August, swimming over the tomb of 900+ sailors and Marines at Pearl Harbor.
FBI hid his second Hawaii stop
Seventeen states sue the Trump administration over a new survey requiring colleges to report years of student data broken down by race, gender and income.
Schools risk losing federal student aid
Across the country
6 storiesTrump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial applies for national banking charter, months after Trump pardoned Binance founder whose exchange bought $2 billion in its stablecoin.
Family stablecoin worth $3.4 billion
Commerce Department imposes export controls on Anthropic's two newest AI models, forcing the company to shut them off for all users days after launch.
Verbal evidence of narrow jailbreak
DOJ creates $1.776 billion fund to pay anyone "weaponized" by past administrations as Trump drops his $10 billion IRS suit.
Drawn from federal Judgment Fund
Trump nominates Project 2025 workforce-section coauthor Dennis Kirk as Interior's inspector general, the office fielding five congressional requests including the Reflecting Pool review.
Watchdog seat vacant 18 months
Trump took in nearly $1.2 billion from his crypto ventures last year, a federal ethics filing shows, locking in profits as ordinary investors lost most of what they paid.
Souvenir coins now $1.68, down from $74
British police arrest five men suspected of preparing a terrorist act near RAF Fairford, the base US bombers use to strike Iran, evacuating 85 homes.
Revolutionary Guard called it "legitimate target"
Fighting back
3 storiesTwenty-four states and 8 cities sue to restore the EPA's endangerment finding, the legal foundation for all U.S. climate regulation since 2009.
Courts uniformly rejected all prior challenges
21 states sue USDA over guidance stripping SNAP benefits from refugees and asylum recipients, calling it unauthorized by Congress.
States given 1 day to comply, not 120
CNN, Politico and MS NOW sue Trump over their White House ban, as NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox refuse to film Trump in CNN's place.
Judge who restored Acosta's pass presiding
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