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Doug Chin
Doug Chin is a former lieutenant governor of Hawaii. Chin became lieutenant governor in February 2018 after then-lieutenant governor Shan Tsutsui (D) resigned to join Strategies 360, a public affairs, strategic communications, and research firm. As the state's attorney general, Chin was the third in the line of succession, but Senate President Ron Kouchi and House Speaker Scott Saiki both declined to serve in the position.[1][2]
Chin was a Democratic candidate for Hawaii's 1st Congressional District in the U.S. House. Chin lost the primary on August 11, 2018.
Chin served as the attorney general of Hawaii from March 2015 to February 2018. Chin was appointed attorney general by Gov. David Ige (D) in January 2015 and was confirmed by the Hawaii State Senate in March 2015.[3][4][5]
Biography
Prior to his appointment as attorney general, Chin was a managing partner at the Honolulu-based law firm of Carlsmith Ball. At the time of his appointment as attorney general, his public sector legal experience included serving as city managing director under Honolulu Mayor Peter Carlisle and working for 12 years in the Honolulu prosecuting attorney's office.[6]
Chin earned his bachelor's degree in English from Stanford University and his J.D. from the University of Hawaii's William S. Richardson School of Law.[7]
Education
- B.A. in English - Stanford University
- J.D. - University of Hawaii[7]
Political career
- February - December 2018: Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii
- March 2015 - February 2018: Hawaii Attorney General
Elections
2018
General election
Ed Case defeated Cam Cavasso, Michelle Rose Tippens, Zachary Burd, and Calvin Griffin in the general election for U.S. House Hawaii District 1 on November 6, 2018.
General election
General election for U.S. House Hawaii District 1
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Ed Case (D) | 73.1 | 134,650 |
| Cam Cavasso (R) | 23.1 | 42,498 | ||
 | Michelle Rose Tippens (L) | 1.9 | 3,498 | |
 | Zachary Burd (G) | 1.2 | 2,214 | |
| Calvin Griffin (Nonpartisan) | 0.7 | 1,351 | ||
| Total votes: 184,211 (100.00% precincts reporting) | |||
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Democratic primary election
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 1 on August 11, 2018.
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 1
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ed Case | 40.0 | 47,482 |
 | Doug Chin | 25.5 | 30,283 | |
 | Donna Kim | 18.2 | 21,554 | |
 | Kaniela Ing | 6.3 | 7,531 | |
 | Beth Fukumoto | 6.3 | 7,473 | |
 | Ernest Y. Martin | 3.2 | 3,827 | |
 | Sam Puletasi | 0.4 | 519 | |
| Total votes: 118,669 | |||
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Republican primary election
Cam Cavasso defeated Raymond Vinole in the Republican primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 1 on August 11, 2018.
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 1
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Cam Cavasso | 81.8 | 10,552 | |
| Raymond Vinole | 18.2 | 2,340 | ||
| Total votes: 12,892 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Calvin Griffin defeated John Cipolla in the nonpartisan primary
Green primary election
Zachary Burd was unopposed in the Green Party primary
Libertarian primary election
Michelle Rose Tippens was unopposed in the Libertarian primary.
Campaign themes
2018
Ballotpedia survey responses
- See also: Ballotpedia's candidate surveys
Doug Chin participated in Ballotpedia's candidate survey on August 1, 2018. The survey questions appear in bold, and Doug Chin's responses follow below.[8]
What would be your top three priorities, if elected?
| “ | I know how hard it is for Hawai‘i families to make ends meet, pay the bills, and put food on the table. We are seeing families who have lived in Hawai‘i for generations being priced out, and pushed out, because they can no longer afford to rent or buy a home. That's why I believe making Hawai‘i more affordable for all families is the top issue facing our people and their representative in Congress.
Second, we must do everything we can to create new opportunities for the people of Hawai‘i to take home a bigger paycheck and succeed in today's global 21st-century economy. To me, that starts with giving every child – no matter where they live, or where they are from – the chance to get ahead with a quality public education and the benefit of more training and jobs programs. It also means that we must stop making the cost of college a barrier to a brighter future. Finally, the people of Hawai‘i can count on me to continue being an advocate for action to address climate change and a champion for protecting Hawai‘i's natural beauty. In Congress, I will support investing in sustainable sources and new technologies so Hawai‘i can generate, store, and transmit the green energy of the future.[9][10] |
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What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Why?
| “ | If I have the honor of serving the people of Hawai‘i in Congress, you can also count on me to fight for Hawai‘i’s future and to face head-on issues like climate change, fixing America’s broken immigration system, and ending the senseless gun violence epidemic sweeping the nation. We must address these issues for the sake of our next generation, which includes my own children. As a former Attorney General, I am well-qualified to fix these critical issues.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many[10]
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Appointments
2015
Chin was appointed Hawaii Attorney General by Gov. David Ige (D) in January 2015. His appointment was confirmed by the state senate in March 2015.[4][6]
Noteworthy events
Trump travel ban lawsuit
On March 6, 2017, President Donald Trump (R) issued an executive order, Protecting The Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into The United States, that rescinded and replaced his January 27 executive order of the same name. The order suspended entry into the United States for individuals from Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen for 90 days. The order also suspended refugee admissions to the United States for 120 days while the process was reviewed for additional national security measures that could be implemented. The order was set to go into effect on March 16, 2017.
On March 7, 2017, Chin filed a lawsuit against the executive order in federal district court. Chin asked a federal judge to uphold the restraining order imposed on the previous executive order and apply it to the new one. The official complaint argued that the new executive order was also illegal because it would harm Muslim residents of Hawaii, the state's educational institutions, and its economy. The previous executive order faced a lawsuit that made similar arguments, filed primarily by attorneys general from Washington and Minnesota, and supported by 16 other Democratic attorneys general.[11]
On March 15, 2017, U.S. District Court Judge Derrick Watson blocked implementation of the order with a nationwide temporary restraining order. Watson wrote, "It would therefore be no paradigmatic leap to conclude that targeting these countries likewise targets Islam ... Certainly, it would be inappropriate to conclude, as the Government does, that it does not." On March 30, Watson granted Hawaii's request to convert the temporary restraining order into a preliminary injunction, writing that the plaintiffs "met their burden of establishing a strong likelihood of success" on their claims. The injunction extended indefinitely the block against federal implementation of Section 2 and Section 6 of the executive order while the case worked its way through the courts.[12][13]
Later on March 30, the U.S. Department of Justice filed an appeal of Watson's decision in the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. [14][15]The Ninth Circuit issued its ruling on June 12, upholding the preliminary injunction issued by Judge Watson. The panel found that in issuing the executive order, President Trump exceeded the president's broad authority over immigration. President Trump did not "make a sufficient finding that the entry of these classes of people would be 'detrimental to the interests of the United States,'" the court wrote. The court found that the executive order also violated provisions of the law that prohibit nationality-based discrimination and that President Trump did not follow the process outlined in federal law for setting a limit on the admission of refugees.[16] The Department of Justice appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States, which agreed to hear the case.
On June 26, 2018, the court ruled 5-4 to reverse the ruling of the Ninth Circuit. The court concluded that the plaintiffs could not show likelihood of success on the merits because the order fell within the president’s broad power over immigration matters. Therefore, the plaintiffs were not entitled to a preliminary injunction. The court remanded the case for further proceedings.[17]
See also
- Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii
- Lieutenant Governor
- United States House of Representatives
- Hawaii's 1st Congressional District election, 2018
- Hawaii's 1st Congressional District
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External links
- Search Google News for this topic
- Office of the Lieutenant Governor of the State of Hawaii
- Doug Chin on Facebook
- Doug Chin on Twitter
Footnotes
- ↑ Hawaii News Now, "Doug Chin to serve as lieutenant governor, but still plans to run for Congress," February 2, 2018
- ↑ MauiNow.com, "Shan Tsutsui to Resign as Lieutenant Governor," January 29, 2018
- ↑ Honolulu Star Advertiser, "Chin will resign as attorney general to campaign for Congress," January 7, 2018
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Khon2.com, "Senate confirms attorney general, public safety director," March 12, 2015
- ↑ Honolulu Civil Beat, "Louie Out, Hawaii To Get New Attorney General," December 1, 2014
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Pacific Business News, "Doug Chin named Hawaii attorney general," January 16, 2015
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Honolulu Star-Advertiser, "Ige names attorney general, PUC chairman," January 16, 2015
- ↑ Note: The candidate's answers have been reproduced here verbatim without edits or corrections by Ballotpedia.
- ↑ Ballotpedia's candidate survey, "Doug Chin's responses," August 1, 2018
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ The Hill, "Hawaii files challenge to Trump's new travel order," March 8, 2017
- ↑ CNBC, "US judge in Hawaii grants motion for nationwide temporary restraining order of Trump’s travel ban," March 15, 2017
- ↑ CNN, "Trump travel ban: Read federal judge's latest ruling," March 30, 2017
- ↑ United States District Court for the District of Hawaii, "Hawaii v. Trump - Notice of Appeal," March 30, 2017
- ↑ SCOTUSblog, "Ninth Circuit hears oral argument on Trump travel ban," May 16, 2017
- ↑ United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, "State of Hawaii v. Donald Trump," June 12, 2017
- ↑ United States Supreme Court, "Trump v. Hawaii Opinion," June 26, 2018
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| Preceded by Shan Tsutsui (D) |
Hawaii Lieutenant Governor 2018 |
Succeeded by Joshua Green (D) |
| Preceded by Russell Suzuki |
Hawaii Attorney General 2015 - 2018 |
Succeeded by Russell Suzuki |
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