Brian Schatz

A U.S. Senator Is Shaming Universities Into Returning Native American Human Remains

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WASHINGTON — A couple of months ago, Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) walked onto the Senate floor with an unusual plan: public shaming. Speaking to the C-SPAN cameras, Schatz began listing off the names of universities and museums with large collections of human remains and sacred funerary objects that belong to Native Americans. They were supposed … Read more

‘Our Guy Gets To Commit Crimes’: Democratic Senator Slams Trump’s Immunity Claims

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Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) on Thursday took to the Senate floor to condemn former President Donald Trump’s claims for total immunity from criminal prosecution, an unprecedented legal argument he said is “impossible to ignore and must cause alarm.” “I don’t want everybody to wake up every morning freaked out about whatever Donald Trump says,” Schatz … Read more