"That lawmakers have even considered “heads I win, tails you lose” legislation is profoundly disturbing. Even more disturbing is that they passed it and it is now law.

To be sure, our state is not alone. Other states have recently used their legislatures to upend the civil justice system."

Thanks Mr Yamachika for these thought provoking articles of late.  We all have "life" to fill our days and nights w/ issues that affect our families.  A state ConCon would be in order and should be considered by the polity.  I doubt we could get there in our current administrative state, but still, a good place to start.  That along w/ an Article V - Convention of States and maybe our nation and its states can get back to "normal".  Both ruling class parties are to blame and both should be held accountable.  Now we need to see if our state leaders can even find the word accountable in their vocabularies.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe ANY tax has been repealed or diminished in HI.