Find out what the “Native Hawaiian Bill” is – and how to stop it. Again.

For background and to learn more about what this bill is about and what it would do, Ed Meese and Todd Gaziano wrote a piece for Heritage last June explaining it:

The U.S. Senate is scheduled to begin debate as early as June 7, 2006, on the misleadingly named “Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2005” (S.147).[1] The proponents of this bill, some motivated by seemingly benign purposes and others by a desire to benefit from special preferences, argue that it redresses ancient wrongs done to early Hawaiians by various powers, including the United States. The bill purports to authorize the creation of an exclusively race-based government of “native” Hawaiians to exercise sovereignty over native Hawaiians living anywhere in the United States. This “Native Hawaiian Government” could allegedly exempt these Hawaiians from whatever aspects of the United States Constitution and state authority it thought undesirable. Not only is this a terrible idea; it is also unconstitutional.

Robert Bluey has the details on how to stop Congress’ latest attempt (there have been two others) to pass this bill.