Tag: US Supreme Court
Supreme Court affirms tribal police authority over non-Indians
Kirsten Carlson, Wayne State University
The Supreme Court unanimously affirmed the sovereign power of American Indian tribes on June...
Interstate water wars are heating up along with the climate
Robert Glennon, University of Arizona
Interstate water disputes are as American as apple pie. States often think a neighboring...
What public school students are allowed to say on social media...
Scott F. Johnson, Concord Law School
After a high school cheerleader in Pennsylvania dropped a series of F-bombs about...
Unlike US, Europe picks top judges with bipartisan approval to create...
David Orentlicher, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Filling Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on the Supreme Court immediately sparked a bitter partisan fight.
But choosing judges...
Oklahoma is – and always has been – Native land
Dwanna L. McKay, Colorado College
Some Oklahomans are expressing trepidation about the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that much of the eastern part of the state...
Supreme Court upholds American Indian treaty promises, orders Oklahoma to follow...
Kirsten Carlson, Wayne State University
Land in eastern Oklahoma that the United States promised to the Creek Nation in an 1833 treaty is still a...
When Supreme Court justices defy expectations
Alison Dundes Renteln, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled in the important and...
Supreme Court ruling on Dreamers sends a clear message to the...
Morgan Marietta, University of Massachusetts Lowell
When it came down to it, the fate of 700,000 immigrants brought to U.S. as children hung on a...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
