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McGirt v. Oklahoma, 591 U.S. ___ (2020), was a landmark [1] [2] United States Supreme Court case which held that the domain reserved for the Muscogee Nation by Congress in the 19th century has never been disestablished and constitutes Indian country for the purposes of the Major Crimes Act, meaning that the State of Oklahoma has no right to prosecute American Indians for crimes allegedly ...
Neil McGill Gorsuch (/ ˈ ɡ ɔːr s ʌ tʃ / GOR-sutch; [1] born August 29, 1967) is an American jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President Donald Trump on January 31, 2017, and has served since April 10, 2017.
Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta, 597 U.S. 629 (2022), was a United States Supreme Court case related to McGirt v. Oklahoma, decided in 2020.In McGirt, the Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. Congress never properly disestablished the Indian reservations of the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma when granting its statehood, and thus almost half the state was still considered to be Native American land.
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, who saw many Native cases as a Western judge, blasted his conservative colleagues' understanding of Native law.
Gorsuch also has sided with the liberal justices in all the court’s cases involving Native Americans since he joined the court. Immigration, especially when people fighting deportation have complained they were given inadequate notice about hearings, is another area where he has typically broken with his conservative colleagues.
On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump officially nominated Neil Gorsuch, a 49-year-old federal appellate judge from Colorado, to fill the Supreme Court seat Justice Antonin Scalia vacated when ...
Justice Neil Gorsuch may have had a slightly awkward first year, but he just racked up a hell of a week. In his public and judicial personas so far, Gorsuch has seemed a bit tone-deaf and clumsy.
Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the dissenting opinion, and argued that the federal government should identify the water rights that are held for the Navajo Nation and ensure that water had not been misappropriated. [1] The court affirmed the Navajo Nation's right to intervene in lawsuits related to water claims. [16]