Gorsuch penned the court’s majority decision, which invoked the country’s long history of mistreating Native Americans. It’s never too late to make things right.” “This is a historic day,” Principal Chief David Hill tells the Times. Officials from the Creek Nation celebrated the legal victory in a statement released Thursday. Justices Neil Gorsuch, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer supported the ruling, while Justices John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented. In a 5-4 decision, the court declared that the land promised to the Creek remains a reservation for the purposes of legal jurisdiction. treaties during the 1830s, continue to exist after Oklahoma officially became a state in 1907? The case hinged on a key question: Did the reservation, established by U.S. The decision-which places criminal cases involving Native Americans on the Muscogee (Creek) Nation reservation under federal, rather than state, jurisdiction-is “one of the most consequential” legal wins for tribal rights in decades, report Jack Healy and Adam Liptak for the New York Times. Oklahomathat much of the eastern half of Oklahoma falls within Native American territory. On Thursday, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in the case McGirt v.
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