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EPISODE · Sep 8, 2026 · 33 MIN
[News] A Lawsuit Against Hawaii's Blood-Quantum Rule Attacks a Line That Sugar Planters Wrote
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Two federal lawsuits ask courts to void the 50 percent Native Hawaiian ancestry requirement for homestead leases, a threshold Congress adopted in 1921 as a compromise with plantation owners and has refused to let Hawaii change ever since.
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