Exactly why a Mandamus from the Alabama supreme court must *not* refer the SOS back to the court where the appeal initiated from, if it is to have teeth. Its possible the court will punt because of this.
That way if subpoenas are issued by the court, they are issued by a higher court, i.e. supreme court of Alabama, so that the usual suspects in Hawaii cannot deflect the matter with their usual hocus pocus bull.
The lower court would just perform the usual confidence trickery of bogus precedent and miss reading law, then probably go off and ask for another non-verifying verification from a shadow of a Hawaii state DOH Registrar.
A Writ of Mandamus issued in Alabama would only compel action by Alabama’s Secretary of State or the lower court in Alabama where this lawsuit originated. How Hawaii would then respond is anyone’s guess.
MY guess is that the Hawaii Registrar would work with the Alabama Secretary of State to craft a remedy that is consistent with the provisions of Hawaii statutes yet meets the requirements of the Writ of Mandamus in Alabama.
That is what happened in responding to eligibility documentation requests from the Secretaries of State in Arizona and in Kansas.