A Hair-Raising SCOTUS Curtain-Raiser
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
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Whether or Not the Press Corps That Covers the Supreme Court Is Deserving the Enormity of What We've Just Described?
Jay Parini: This case is designed to, in part, destroy the federal government's ability to regulate and to protect indian tribes. The plaintiffs here are also challenging congress's broader power to regulate indian tribes, tribal affairs. If this case goes the way they hope, that corporations will have much greater access to the many natural resources that are located on tribal lands,. That states will have a much freer hand in regulating and discriminating against and encroaching upon tribal lands. Those fly-by-night lawyers who step out of their comfort zone don't care about what Americans want or think. And when you have none of these super fancy lawyers with no real knowledge of how law works,
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