With Oklahoma Reservation Case, Supreme Court Tells Congress To Keep Its Promises

7/18/20
 
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from The Federalist,
7/13/20:

“On the far end of the Trail of Tears was a promise.”

Playwrights, novelists, and screenwriters spend entire careers without penning an opening line of such weight and power. Yet this sentence isn’t the epigraph for a new book, nor the first screen for a new HBO miniseries — it’s the start of one of the most well-reasoned and poignant Supreme Court rulings in recent memory.

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