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Soumendu Bagchi, Abhilasha Joshi appointed India's next envoys to Iraq, Chile respectively

Soumendu Bagchi has been appointed as India's next ambassador to Iraq, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Monday. Read further on Dynamite News:

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"As an author of one of these briefs, I am free to admit the lie."

The relationship between scholarly amicus briefs and scholarship

Reason

"Brackeen's Third Sovereign"

I much appreciated the guest-post by Prof. Lorianne Updike Toler (Northern Illinois) on Brackeen back in November, based on her recent University of Chicago Law Review article, The Missing Indian Affairs Clause; now that Brackeen has been handed down, I thought I'd pass along this follow-up: Halaand v. Brackeen, which…

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Supreme Court's Sidestep Leaves Native Kids Without Answers

While intended to keep Native families together, the ICWA subjects American Indian children to a lower level of protection than is enjoyed by non-Native kids.

Reason

The supreme court made a surprising ruling for Native American rights

A white couple challenged an adoption law that protects Native children. Thankfully, the conservative court didn’t buy their argument

The Guardian - US

Reservations For Two

Justices Gorsuch and Alito have diametrically opposite perspectives on Indian Tribes

Reason

Professor Barrett Flunks Brackeen's Lawyers

Justice Thomas would place the burden on the government, and follow a presumption of liberty.

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Noah Feldman: Supreme Court was sensibly conservative on tribal rights

Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s majority opinion for the Supreme Court in Haaland v. Brackeen is conservative in the good, old-fashioned sense of the word. In upholding the Indian Child Welfare Act, the court reaffirmed precedent and declined an invitation to revolutionize the law with a reactionary constitutional holding. Along the…

Tribune News Service

States seek to protect tribes’ rights in child custody cases

Worried about a pending U.S. Supreme Court case, some states aim to pass new laws ensuring American Indian children can stay in their tribal communities even if they’re placed in the child welfare system.

Tribune News Service

"What's Missing in the Brackeen Argument: An Indian Affairs Clause"

I was chatting with Prof. Lorianne Updike Toler (Northern Illinois), and she mentioned some thoughts of hers on this subject, based on her recent University of Chicago Law Review article, The Missing Indian Affairs Clause. I encouraged her to write up a blog post, and she kindly passed along the…

Reason

Why the Indian Child Welfare Act is Unconstitutional

Well, you can't say that my new book, Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America, was not well-timed. Last week, the Supreme Court took up the issue of affirmative action in admissions, and directly addressed the question raised in my book as to whether the classifications are too…

Reason

Texas case could change adoption rules for Native American children, and undercut tribal rights

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a lawsuit challenging the preferences Native American families and tribes are given under the Indian Child Welfare Act.

The Texas Tribune

Supreme Court divided on adoption law that keeps Native American kids in tribal homes

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices sounded sharply split Wednesday on whether to strike down a federal child custody law that seeks to keep Native American children with tribal families.

Los Angeles Times

Minnesota tribal members ponder future of Native child welfare ahead of Supreme Court challenge

MINNEAPOLIS — Sheri Riemers, a member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe, was 19 when she learned that two of her mother's sisters were removed from their birth home in the early 1970s and placed with separate non-Indian foster parents. One of the sisters was sexually abused and forcibly…

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The Independent UK

Native child welfare law faces major Supreme Court challenge

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Wednesday on the most significant challenge to a law that gives preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings of Native children

The Guardian - US

For decades, welfare laws kept Native American families together. Will the supreme court end them?

The Indian Child Welfare Act was passed to redress years of mass separations of Native families. This month, the court hears a case that could overturn it

The Times of India

Mumbai police arrests man from Jharkhand for cheating software engineer of over Rs 31.67 lakh

MUMBAI: The Central region Cyber police on Friday arrested a 33-year-old ICWA drop-out for posing as a girl, befriending a city software engineer, promising to marry and cheating him of over Rs 31.67 lakh in two separate cases.

The Times of India

Mumbai: Cyber cops nab 'girl' for Rs 31 lakh con

MUMBAI: Central region cyber police on Friday arrested a 33-year-old ICWA drop-out for posing as a girl, befriending a city software engineer, promising to marry and cheating him of over Rs 31.6 lakh in two cases.

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How the Government Keeps 'Indian' Children From Loving Homes

The broken foster system for Native American kids is finally up for Supreme Court scrutiny.

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