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The Oklahoma Ruling

by Anne Laurie|  September 1, 202010:21 am| 3 Comments

This post is in: Civil Rights, Supreme Court

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HBO’s Watchmen ended up UNDERSELLING Eastern Oklahoma as the setting where America’s numerous simmering social conflicts would come to a head at the turn of the 2020s. https://t.co/KgQVnfcDwT

— Zeddy (@Zeddary) July 9, 2020

Breaking News: The Supreme Court ruled that much of eastern Oklahoma is an Indian reservation, preventing the state from prosecuting Native Americans there https://t.co/nSpkspLWYW

— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 9, 2020

…It was written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, a Westerner who has sided with tribes in previous cases and joined the court’s more liberal members”
So good to see Tribes winning at SCOTUS (+ over Trump’s opposition, Admin filed a brief+argued against Tribes)https://t.co/0of6azUfGP

— Neal Katyal (@neal_katyal) July 9, 2020

This was written by Neil Gorusch in this morning’s 5-4 ruling in McGirt v Oklahoma and this SCOTUS is weirder and more interesting in its judgements than I think most people would have guessed pic.twitter.com/7Ms1MLKuCi

— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) July 9, 2020

Justices rule swath of Oklahoma remains tribal reservation
https://apnews.com/c90c395f1e156d37a85e59e0a21cb52a?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

And luckily Jackson is dead because if he wasn’t he’d challenge Gorusch to a duel.

— Tom Maher (@BoyDharma) July 9, 2020

The persistent theme of Gorsuch’s Indian jurisprudence is (1) empathy for tribes screwed over by the government, and (2) an insistence on holding the government to its treaties and (broken) promises. Here’s the beginning and ending of his opinion today. https://t.co/8tlfo2uafh pic.twitter.com/8RuDtuNfca

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) July 9, 2020

As a visual aid, this is what Oklahoma looks like now pic.twitter.com/7Uj6cfHwn3

— Clark ? (@d0rksided) July 9, 2020


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“After a century of #Oklahoma not following our treaty rights, the Supreme Court said no more.”

To learn why #McGirt is so important, listen to all eight episodes of “This Land,” the groundbreaking podcast by Rebecca Nagle (Cherokee). @rebeccanagle #ThisLand #HonorTheTreaties https://t.co/4dSPRRgG9t

— indianz.com (@indianz) July 9, 2020

THIS LAND by Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle https://t.co/Rx9ZakhIQK#ThisLand #Podcast #SupremeCourt #McGirt #Murphy #HonorTheTreaties pic.twitter.com/6rZjhLcKTi

— indianz.com (@indianz) July 9, 2020

IT’S HERE!

The U.S. Supreme Court has narrowly sided with Indian Country in one of the most consequential cases in recent history.#McGirt #HonorTheTreatieshttps://t.co/zxZ89lSdzR pic.twitter.com/c2oR51rdG8

— indianz.com (@indianz) July 9, 2020

mcgirt, who won today, won the right to be retried for child molestation in federal court instead of oklahoma state court. nobody in the creek tribe gets any land back and if congress wanted to it could reverse this decision tomorrow by formally abrogating the treaty.

— Sigh Hersh, Hostile Witness (@Ugarles) July 9, 2020

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Neil Gorsuch & the four liberal Justices just gave away half of Oklahoma, literally.

Manhattan is next. https://t.co/Ic9gqqznJp

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) July 9, 2020

It’s called honoring a treaty, but I wouldn’t expect you to understand honor.

— csd (@csd) July 9, 2020

Maybe Oklahoma should have respected the treaty the USA signed with the Creek tribe instead of trying to pretend it doesn’t exist?

— Pé (@4everNeverTrump) July 9, 2020

I’m not a highfallutin’ lawyer & such, but seems to me that that Manhattan deal being 150 years before there was a United States complicates fine senator’s hyperbole. https://t.co/qJ07XAozor

— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) July 9, 2020

ted are you workshopping your parler material on twitter again by turning a big dial that says RACISM and looking back at the audience https://t.co/7IkboHI2zV

— kilgore trout, suburban female understander (@KT_So_It_Goes) July 9, 2020

Someday I’d like to see a definitive break down on the faux stupid populists of the Republican Party and the actually stupid populists of the Republican Party. https://t.co/GCPsYwGg5V

— Schooley (@Rschooley) July 9, 2020

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    Baud

    September 1, 2021 at 10:27 am

    This was over a year ago.  Am I missing something?

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    Old School

    September 1, 2021 at 10:29 am

    @Baud:  My guess is that the wrong button was pressed.

    I still enjoyed reading the post though.

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    lowtechcyclist

    September 1, 2021 at 10:30 am

    Does this mean we can smoke marijuana in Muscogee?
    @Baud: 
    I was wondering the same thing.

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