As Trump’s domestic military moves and threats play out in DC and LA, the need to balance legal challenges and relationship-building isn’t lost on Hawaiʻi.

President Donald Trump took over the Washington, D.C., police department and sent the National Guard into the nation’s capital.

He has deployed California National Guard members and U.S. Marines to Los Angeles — against the will of that state’s governor — in the midst of protests against immigration crackdowns there.

He’s threatening to do the same in other cities that are Democratic Party strongholds.

At a recent state House hearing, Hawaiʻi legislators speculated about scenarios where federal actions such as immigration arrests could lead to direct confrontations with state sheriffs if they occurred, say, at a State Capitol protes

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