Plaintiffs should not be able to hand-pick individual judges to overturn laws they dislike.

Chuck Schumer, Sheldon Whitehouse, and I are leading a bill to codify the Judicial Conference's new policy to curtail judge shopping in our federal courts and assign major cases at random.

NEW:

With the Texas District Court defying the Judicial Conference—we're introducing legislation to stop the corrupt practice of judge shopping

The right-wing's been handpicking judges—leading to attacks on abortion access, birth control, LGBTQ+ rights, immigration, environment

🌱 Senator Senator Mazie Hirono kicks off #NationalNativePlantMonth at #LyonArboretum - Senator Hirono toured Lyon’s Hawaiian Rare Plant Program Greenhouse to see and plant Hawaiian endangered plants ➡️ bit.ly/3PSeDFy #ExploreUHM

.President Biden has been delivering on his promise to relieve the crushing burden of student debt from millions.

Despite Republicans' repeated attempts to stop him, to date, President Biden has approved $146 billion in student debt relief for 4 million Americans and he's working to relieve more.

In 1864, Lincoln was President, the civil war raged on, and women were 56 years away from gaining the right to vote.

Republicans are dragging our country back centuries to a time when women were second-class citizens, all because Trump stacked SCOTUS with Justices who ended Roe.

It was an honor to welcome PM's Office of Japan Kishida to the National Japanese American Memorial Foundation in Washington with Secretary Deb Haaland and U.S. Rep. Jill Tokuda to help plant a cherry tree honoring Senator Daniel K. Inouye, as well as the invaluable friendship and alliance between Japan and the United States.

It's a-boat time! Diversity in our military should be celebrated, not feared—glad to see U.S. Coast Guard name a ship in Melvin Bell's honor, a Native Hawaiian servicemember who broke down walls of systemic discrimination in the Coast Guard.
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Trump: There has to be some form of punishment for women who get an abortion

Trump 'proudly' put three Justices on SCOTUS who overturned Roe the minute they could.

He even thanked the six Justices responsible for ripping away safe abortion access from millions.

We all know Trump is all in on a nationwide abortion ban, regardless of the lies he spews.

Quick field trip with my staff and husband, Leighton, to enjoy the solar eclipse! Of course I wore protective eye gear—famously, the sun doesn't care if you're a senator or president, it will singe your eyeballs.

People that should have a say in women's health care decisions:
⚫️Women
⚫️Doctors

People that shouldn't:
⚫️Politicians

RT if you agree.

AANHPI women working full-time make 93 cents on the $1 compared to white men for the same work—and the wage gap is even wider when data is disaggregated.

On #AANHPIEqualPayDay , it's time to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act and close the gender wage gap.