Supreme Court Says Eastern Half Of Oklahoma Is Native American Land
7/9/2020, 11:51:10 AM · by Enlightened1 · 30 replies
CNBC ^ | 07/09/2020 | Tucker Higgins and Dan Mangan
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Durham, under pressure to wrap up investigation, could ‘punt’ to after Election Day
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I commented on the Durham may punt article. Of cousre it’s bulls***. FOX is CNN lite. I figure the “Durhma may punt” is either made up out of whole cloth or “real leak/fake news”.
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This decision about Native land seems crazy, I hope knowledgeable people chime in. From article, does this mean ONLY federal LE can arrest anyone in this entire area or what?
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3863398/posts
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a huge swath of the state of Oklahoma is Native American land for certain purposes, siding with a Native American man who had challenged his rape conviction by state authorities in the territory.
The 5-4 decision, with an opinion authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch, endorsed the claim of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation to the land, which encompasses three million acres, including most of the city of Tulsa.
The decision means that only federal authorities, no longer state prosecutor, can lodge charges against Native Americans who commit serious alleged crimes on that land, which is home to 1.8 million people. Of those people, 15% or fewer are Native Americans.
“Today we are asked whether the land these treaties promised remains an Indian reservation for purposes of federal criminal law,” Gorsuch wrote.
“Because Congress has not said otherwise, we hold the government to its word,” he wrote.
RE: OKLAHOMA/NATIVE AMERICAN LAND
How does this new revelation affect state and national government? CRAZY.