Aaaaaaand the Supreme Court is at it again, this time Indian territory

[uponit7771]

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Link to tweet

https://www.scotusblog.com/2022/06/in-5-4-ruling-court-dramatically-expands-the-power-of-states-to-prosecute-crimes-on-reservations/

On Thursday, the Court reversed the presumption against state jurisdiction, holding that unless Congress acts to preempt state jurisdiction, states can prosecute non-Indians for all crimes committed in Indian country. Writing for the court, Justice Brett Kavanaugh listed several of the court’s precedents that conflicted with the Worcester, concluding that “the Worcester-era understanding of Indian country as separate from the State was abandoned later in the 1800s,” presumably meaning the McBratney and Draper decisions.

[lapfog_1]

1. how else will they impose abortion restrictions on the tribal lands.

[uponit7771]

3. +1,

[live love laugh]

2. The more explosive 1/6 testimony the more they distract,or try to it seems.

[Ms. Toad]

14. These opinions were initially drafted months ago -

and this week is nearly always the week in which the most significant opinions are released.

So, no.

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. This way the FASCIST KILLERS can go after abortions on First AMerican lands..

All cons are enemies of the human race.

[SergeStorms]

5. That illegitimate court is out of control!

Something has to be done. That's all I'm going to say.

[delisen]

6. Any implications here for women and supposed crimes? nt

[uponit7771]

7. Yes, makes it harder for non Native American doctors to perform abortions on NA land in forced...

... birth states.

[qazplm135]

10. Removes the idea

that we can just slap abortion clinics on native lands.

I think folks also have to ask how the Hyde Amendment conflicts with the other idea of using Federal Land to build abortion clinics.

[UTUSN]

8. Another one to go: Rolling back veterans' employment rights.

[rsdsharp]

9. There was a time when the Court would never overturn a precedent

if members who were in the earlier majority were still in the Court. It’s been two whole years. The only thing that changed was the loss of RBG and the addition of Barrett. In your face to the other four justices.

My state Supreme Court just held that abortion is not a right under the state constitution. Just four years after they held that it was.

Stare decisis is dead.

[spanone]

11. This is a radical, rogue SCOTUS.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

12. I suspect that their intention is to eventually prevent

NA folks from voting, to the greatest degree possible.

[uponit7771]

15. +1,

[denbot]

13. Fuck!

Natives are often preyed upon during civil disputes by local L.E.O.'s. Now it will be ramned though local courthouses, cancelling Native Tribes autonomy.