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For the last month I have woken up, gone outside, basked in sunlight, made some coffee, drank it, grit my teeth and started up my phone to see if SCOTUS had ruled on Haaland v. Brackeen yet, kickstarting a new GOP movement to steal Native children & undermine tribal sovereignty.
The Brackeens were White grandparents who wanted to adopt their Native grandchild after their white parent was killed and their Native parent had a drug problem. The case tugs at the heartstrings. If that's all you knew, you'd be inclined to think they were in the right.
But under the rules of the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act (#ICWA), courts must place Native children first with Native family members, or lacking that, other tribal members, or lacking that, RELATED tribes (such as a Creek kid going to a Seminole home, both Muscogean tribes).
It is unconscionable that today, in 2021, #SCOTUS is poised to wipe away fifty years of women’s empowerment and rights and return to the days when the state could make pregnant people prisoners in their own bodies, forcing them to carry out the wishes of the state. (1/3)
The only reason we are here, where we fear #SCOTUS taking away a constitutional right, is because of the Right’s packing of the Court. If not for such court packing, we would almost certainly not face this very grim reality where abortion access could soon be taken away. (2/3)
The Supreme Court’s credibility is already in peril. Overturning Roe will confirm that this conservative supermajority is driven not by law or precedent, but by a naked partisan agenda. @acslaw
#SCOTUS #reproductiverights #ReformtheCourt (3/3)
#SCOTUS #reproductiverights #ReformtheCourt (3/3)
