{"id":1352389,"date":"2022-03-01T06:26:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T11:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1352389"},"modified":"2022-03-01T11:41:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T16:41:13","slug":"supreme-court-agrees-to-consider-native-american-children-adoption-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-agrees-to-consider-native-american-children-adoption-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Agrees To Consider Native American Children Adoption Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsupreme-court-agrees-to-consider-native-american-children-adoption-law%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1352389&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/6F5184F9-F34B-4231-A262-81329D498D85_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">On Monday, the United States Supreme Court agreed to consider a law concerning the adoption of Native American children.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The law at issue is the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), which, along with other items, prioritizes placing Indian children with family members, other Native Americans, or a tribe. The intention of the law was to end previous actions wherein hundreds of thousands of Native American children were taken from their homes by adoption agencies and put in group areas or given to white families.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">According to The New York Times, Texas, Louisiana, and Indiana, as well as seven individuals, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/28\/us\/supreme-court-native-american-children.html\"><span class=\"s1\">sued<\/span><\/a> the federal government over the law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Attorneys for the states reportedly told the high court that the law \u201ccreates a child-custody regime for Indian children that is determined by a child\u2019s genetics and ancestry,\u201d adding that \u201cthis race-based system is designed to make the adoption and fostering of Indian children by non-Indian families a last resort through various legal mechanisms that play favorites based on race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Some Native American groups are pushing for the law to remain in place.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWe know the importance of keeping our children connected with their families, communities, and heritage. ICWA has proven itself as the gold standard of child welfare law, which is why both Republican and Democratic administrations, tribes and tribal organizations, and child welfare experts continue to defend it,\u201d Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. and three other tribal leaders said in a statement. \u201cWe will never accept a return to a time when our children were forcibly removed from our communities, and look forward to fighting for ICWA before the Court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Multiple tribes, including the Cherokee and the Navajo, became <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/28\/us\/supreme-court-native-american-children.html\"><span class=\"s1\">involved<\/span><\/a> to defend the law. They wrote that the 1978 law \u201cis tied to membership in Indian tribes \u2014 which is about politics, not race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The federal government and the tribes also reportedly informed the Supreme Court that the law has worked, but Native American kids are still more likely to be taken from their homes than other children.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Texas said in its brief that this was a result of societal factors. \u201cThe United States and tribes make no effort,\u201d attorneys for the state wrote in a brief, per The Times, \u201cto disprove the common-sense conclusion that today, the high numbers of adoptions and fostering of Indian children are often a sign, not the cause, of the high risk of neglect, violence, gang activity, drug abuse, alcoholism and suicide among Indian children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit upheld part of a lower court\u2019s ruling, but also reversed part of it. The appeals court \u201cruled that the provisions violate ([\u2026]among other things) the 10th Amendment because they \u2018commandeer\u2019 \u2013 that is, impose duties on \u2013 the states,\u201d per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2022\/02\/justices-agree-to-review-constitutionality-of-indian-child-welfare-act\/\"><span class=\"s1\">SCOTUS Blog<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Haaland_v._Brackeen\"><span class=\"s1\">Ballotpedia<\/span><\/a>, Debra Haaland officially appealed to the Supreme Court in September, in her official role as the Secretary of the Interior regarding <i>Haaland v. Brackeen<\/i>. Both sides have requested that the Supreme Court get involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Haaland v. Brackeen<\/i>&nbsp;is grouped together for one hour of oral argument with&nbsp;<i>Cherokee Nation v. Brackeen<\/i>,&nbsp;<i>Texas v. Haaland<\/i>, and&nbsp;<i>Brackeen v. Haaland<\/i>. 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Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s2\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, the United States Supreme Court agreed to consider a law concerning the adoption of Native American children.\u00a0The law at issue is the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA),<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1352389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1352389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1352389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1352389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1352389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}