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Tribes and tribal law experts see the Castro-Huerta ruling as an alarming turn in the Supreme Court's treatment of Indian law and tribal affairs.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics discusses a U.S. Supreme Court ruling saying the state has the right to prosecute non-Native suspects who commit crimes on tribal lands against Native Americans and supporters of a ballot measure to put recreational marijuana on the ballot turn in 164,000 signatures to the Secretary of State.
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Four federal Indian law experts digest the Supreme Court's 'shocking' decision to grant state governments the power to prosecute crimes in Indian Country.
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Tribal leaders across Oklahoma and beyond are reacting to last week's Supreme Court decision in the Castro-Huerta case, saying the ruling upends more than 100 years of federal Indian law.
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Only recently did the court rule that the eastern half of Oklahoma is on tribal land, and that the state could not bring criminal prosecutions there without the consent of the Indian tribes there.
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In a 5-4 decision, SCOTUS delivers an "unfunded mandate" to 49 other states in its Castro-Huerta decision. For decades, tribal nations, states and the federal government have operated with each knowing their when operating within the maze that is the tribal criminal justice system. This key decision changes it.
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For decades, tribal nations, states and the federal government have operated with each knowing their place when operating within the maze that is the tribal criminal justice system. The Castro-Huerta decision, if decided in Oklahoma's favor, could change that.
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Residents of the city's north side were concerned that Cherokee Nation wanted to build a jail on the proposed site for a satellite courthouse.
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Reporting by Bloomberg Law revealed that the Oklahoma attorney general's office paid a Washington, D.C. law firm $1.4 million — that's double their original agreement.
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Reproductive rights and abortion are very much in the news right now and have been for the last year. KOSU will be hosting a Twitter Spaces event on Monday, May 9 at 12 p.m. CST to discuss the new abortion laws recently passed and signed into law in Oklahoma.