04/12/2020 5:37:19 PM PDT
· 35 of 37 vadum
to exDemMom
LOL!
She writes, And another thing: this artificial concept of “dying with Covid-19” needs to be ditched, which is EXACTLY the point the article tries to make.
Now THAT is a very interesting question. It seems to me that tribal “sovereignty” is superseded whenever something important (e.g. tax revenue etc.) is at stake.
For example, in Wagnon v. Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation (SCOTUS, 2005) the court looked at a case in which the tribe imposed its own tax on gasoline sales and had sued to block collection of the state tax.
In a majority opinion written by Justice Clarence Thomas, the high court held that the Kansas tax is “nondiscriminatory” and “poses no affront to the [Potawatomi] nation’s sovereignty.”