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https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-9526_9okb.pdf
Gorsuch writes the majority opinion, joined by 4 LIBS 5-4
Does some of it not? There were treaties after all. I don’t see how is this is a win for Liberals. Conservatives believe in the right for people to govern themselves.
What good is making false promises if you can’t break them?
Especially when it’s for “the common good”
Liberals? Really? That word has no meaning anymore.
And what is your take on the U.S. upholding treaties it signed?
Looks dumb and disruptive to me. Oklahoma is a State, not a reservation. There is hardly a shred of land here that is still indian owned.
More out of hand revisionist history and law.
The USSC have made fools of themselves. Again. They are hardly relevant any longer so far as reputation is concerned.
Good grief. What an ignorant statement. Read the case. Did you? If you did, read it again, because that is NOT what the opinion concludes.
Well... it was called “Indian Territory” when the Cherokee and others were force marched there.
Yes, Creek Reservation not officially disestablished by Congress and so remains for purposes of at the Major Crimes Act. This applies to almost the entire eastern half of the state. It remains to be seen whether this decision will be used as a wedge in broarder issues involving disputes between the state and Indians, maybe even who has title to lands lived on by non-Indians.
SCOTUS ruling against the tribes is unheard of ... they always rule for them and have said so in many cases.
As far as Treaties are concerned SCOTUS threw out upholding them for the non-Indian in the 1970s. If there is an angle that is favorable to the Tribes then, that becomes the law.
If you think that’s unfair, you are correct. But it is Constitutional, since the Tribes are directly mentioned in the Constitution and you me the other guy are NOT mentioned by name. We are just “the people” an amorphous mass that has no real Rights, just privileges which can be revoked at any given time - Oklahoma’s were just revoked.
Good thing we have two Trump appointees on the court! Imagine how bad it would be if they were democrat appointees.
When, ever, has one liberal ever crossed over in defiance of other liberals, when ever?
It’s simply the law.
When Congress denied Sequoyah statehood and passed the Organic Act granting statehood to “Oklahoma”, they failed to revoke the status of Indian Territory that would have become the State of Sequoyah.
Since that status is from a treaty signed by the President and ratified by the Senate, and since it has not been repudiated, it, along with the Constitution, is the supreme law of the land and binds all states and courts.
Decision was correct.