So when are they going to get to all the other unlawful stuff the government does?
when someone - like you - starts working for it. You are going to start, right?
U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation
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#102As an aside.. whats up with that file photo Reuters is using? Is that somebody naked in front of the supreme court wearing just a fanny pack?
Lol. That is what I initially thought as well, but it turns out it's a lady wearing a nude colored dress.
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#103> The ruling voided McGirt’s sentence of 1,000 years in prison but he could face a new trial in federal court rather than state court. Not changed by this ruling, but it strikes me as really odd that you can sentence someone to prison for that long, or that you would bother. Why not just say life in prison? If your state is 103 years old, saying anything about the next 1000 years seems ... lacking in credibility.
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#104> The ruling means that for the first time much of eastern Oklahoma is legally considered reservation land. More than 1.8 million people live in the land at issue, including roughly 400,000 in Tulsa, Oklahoma’s second-largest city.
So does this effectively create two different rules of law over the same land...?
Like how does this work?
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
> McGirt, 71, has served more than two decades in prison after being convicted in 1997 in Wagoner County in eastern Oklahoma of rape, lewd molestation and forcible sodomy of a 4-year-old girl. McGirt, who did not contest his guilt in the case before the justices, had appealed a 2019 ruling by a state appeals court in favor of Oklahoma. The crime part seems largely insignificant to this ruling. It was mostly just a pr…
I didn't read this article as saying that he had admitted guilt. I read it as saying that for purposes of this case , he didn't contest his guilt. That is, the basis of this case is not a claim that he is innocent; it's a claim that the wrong court convicted him. If I missed something, feel free to point it out...
That's a good point. You're right, he just wasn't challenging it, not that he claimed guilt.
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#106As an aside.. whats up with that file photo Reuters is using? Is that somebody naked in front of the supreme court wearing just a fanny pack?
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#107Honestly after all the Native Americans went through, give them the whole state at least. People in the United States speak and reflect often about the atrocities of slavery. We need to equally reflect on and remember the atrocities against Native Americans.
I am not from US, so i am not very clued in to this, but a State or mini-state would sound a lot better than a 'reservation'
“Indian Nation” is sometimes used, if I understand correctly.
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#108European here: what does it mean economically, geographically and for the local ecosystem?
Nothing drastic. The real consequence is going to be to the state criminal justice system, where and who it applies to. Federal laws will still apply.
Here's most of it:
"Tribe members who live within the boundaries are now set to become exempt from certain state obligations such as paying state taxes, while certain Native Americans found guilty in state courts may be able to challenge their convictions on jurisdictional grounds. The tribe also may obtain more power to regulate alcohol sales and expand casino gambling. "
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#110As an aside.. whats up with that file photo Reuters is using? Is that somebody naked in front of the supreme court wearing just a fanny pack?
No, just someone walking