Been out of the SCOTUS opinion analysis for a min (baby). But this Gorsuch Dissent (joined by Thomas 😮) from cert. denial in Veneno v. US, which challenged the Major Crimes Act (a fed. law that allows feds. to prosecute crimes on Indian Reservations), is worth discussing/explaining for a sec. 🧵 1/8

🚨 Super exciting news…the new edition of the Bluebook has a brand new rule… Rule 22 on how to cite materials from Tribal Nations!!! A long overdue and welcome development. Tribal Law scholars, we have a lot to be proud of today. Tribal Law and Tribal Nations are a little less invisible today.🫶🏽✊🏽

Trump & his lawyers rely on the 14th Amendment's treatment of Native people to redefine birthright citizenship. In our Essay coming out in the NYU Law Review Online, Greg Ablavsky & I show how wrong that argument is. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

For those working on or paying attention to the birthright citizenship case, check out Ablavsky and Berger’s new piece on why invoking Elk v. Wilkins (Indian citizenship case) doesn’t make sense. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Trump is laying off the DOCTORS at the Indian Health Service?! A chronically underfunded agency?! Irresponsible, dangerous, & a complete disregard for the lives of Native people and the government’s treaty and trust responsibilities. “Shame on them” is inadequate. ictnews.org/news/life-or...