Great White Father print-um heap much wampum ... give-um Red
Brother with High Cheek Bones ... make-um Granny Squaw big happy!
Posted on 06/19/2012 10:31:50 AM PDT by ColdOne
The Supreme Court has ruled that the government must fully reimburse Native American tribes for millions of dollars they spent on federal programs.
The federal government had agreed to fully reimburse money tribes spent on programs like law enforcement, environmental protection and agricultural assistance, but Congress capped the amount of money earmarked for that reimbursement. The tribes sued, and the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver said the money must be fully reimbursed.
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The tribes sued, and the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver said the money must be fully reimbursed.
Sure!...What the hell?...It’s only taxpayer money!
African-Americans sued, and the Supreme Court said the money must be fully reimbursed.
White men spoke with forked tongue. So Indian tribes forked white men right back at SCOTUS.
If the feds were actually following Const. Art 1, Sect 8, the reimbursals, if any, would be limited to what the govt was doing, which would be limited. Just another consequence of the living and breathing constitution, unmoored from its foundings.
Great White Father print-um heap much wampum ... give-um Red
Brother with High Cheek Bones ... make-um Granny Squaw big happy!
Seems to me they were owed. Wouldn’t be the first time the government reneged on an agreement with the natives..
“Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote the majority opinion for Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Elena Kagan. Chief Justice John Roberts, and Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Samuel Alito dissented.”
Looks like Thomas was the swing vote on this one.
Maybe the next case will be for the eviction
of all the hyphenated Americans?
Maybe the next case will be for the eviction
of all the hyphenated Americans?
These tribes operate like little turd-world countries. They squirrel and squander federal money, can’t find where all of it went, claim “it got lost”, then they beg, wheedle, whine and sue for more.
Seems to me we have a majority of the court on our side when it comes to rebating the $6 trillion debt Congress piled up taking Social Security money and peeing it away in measurements of cow flatulance (and such things).
Now that would happen if and only if somebody decided to shut down Social Security, but there you have it.
This situation is one where the federales said they'd reimburse the tribes and then didn't.
Theft is theft Migraine.
the taxpayers have been giving the Tribes millions upon millions for many, many years. They should all be multimillionaires living in palaces by now.
Wow, that is a strange breakdown! 2 Libs 2 Conservatives 1 Moderate in the majority and 2 Libs 2 Conservatives in the minority. You don't see that very often!
More money for casinos.
the tribes will be sympathetic because Congress actually passed a law which interferred in commerce (their livelihood) (remember: Congress shall pass no law which interferes ... )
Shut down the BIA or rename it The Bureau of Chinese Affairs....
Driving past the sign on I-90 south of Buffalo, NY you pass a sign stating you’re entering the Seneca Nation (or whatever tribe it is). You’re somehow leaving the USA and State of NY as you pass the sign.
So... Perhaps we should treat it as a foreign country. Provide ZERO aid. NO votes in the US elections. Go through immigration/customs when passing the borders. Maybe require a passport.
I could care less. I don’t by cigarettes or hit up the Casinos.
“So Indian tribes forked white men right back at SCOTUS.”
SCOTUS ruling = big medicine!
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