Connecticut Law Review#Audience #Questions are flowing in! The Panelists of Panel 2 are showing optimism regarding Equal Protection challenges to #ICWA not reaching #SCOTUS again.
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Seth Davis highlights four structural issues regarding #HaalandvBrackeen that show how #Brackeen is an, "ideological charge against the federal government" by State governments.
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Prof. Ablavsky states, "The Court has become a much more dangerous source of doctrine for Native people in the present." He forecasts that Thomas's view will be utilized to expand #Stateauthority into Native Country.
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Prof. Ablavsky of @stanfordlaw expands on Prof. Torres' point, stating that defining #plenarypowers means that the #federalgovernment has the power to legislate for Native people directly.
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Prof. Torres states #HaalandvBrackeen is a case about #federalpower and quotes Justice Amy Coney Barrett's opinion, "It is plenary within its sphere, but even a sizeable sphere has borders."
Prof. Briggs kicks off Panel 2 by teaching that whenever we review a #lawreviewarticle stating that #ICWA was passed because children were being taken, "just know that decades of history is being glossed over."
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During the #QandA after Panel 1, Prof. Kathryn Fort advocated for increased education of #political and #racial classifications of Native tribes, which will help future #legaladvocates when the time comes.
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Chairwoman Andrews-Maltais encourages #tribes to reach out to their #legislature to increase and strengthen the laws of #ICWA to fortify the #defenses against ever-present threats.
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Chairwoman Andrews-Maltais describes the day that the #HaalandvBrackeen #SCOTUS #decision came down: "We cheered, we cried, we laughed . . . but the threats are ever-present."
Chairwoman Cheryl Andrews-Maltais of Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head Aquinnah rounds out Panel 1 of #InterrogatingHaalandvBrackeen by stating that, "the theft of our children is the most egregious and harmful genocide that can possibly be imagined."