The Latest Breaking News from Neil Gorsuch

Justice Gorsuch has never voted against Native American interests in a Supreme Court case. But that probably isn't because he's biased in favor of Indians. He simply believes that much existing precedent in this field is biased the other way.

The decision leaves water infrastructure for the Navajo Nation on unsure ground

While intended to keep Native families together, the ICWA subjects American Indian children to a lower level of protection than is enjoyed by non-Native kids.

A Supreme Court ruling this week will make it harder for the Navajo Nation to get water from the Colorado River

United States Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has authored two of the 36 opinions for the 2022-2023 term as of June 16, 2023, which is the fewest authored opinions of all justices. Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett have authored five, Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Clarence Thomas, Ketanji Brown…

The Navajo Nation, the largest Native American reservation in the U.S., covers 27,000 square miles (70,000 square kilometers) in the Southwest – an area larger than 10 states. Today it is home to more than 250,000 people – roughly comparable to the population of St. Petersburg, Florida, or Winston-Salem, North…

Native American tribe argued federal government had not fulfilled obligations in battle over dwindling water supplies

The Supreme Court has ruled against the Navajo Nation in a dispute involving water from the drought-stricken Colorado River

Native Americans say the Supreme Court has reaffirmed their power to withstand threats from states in many areas

A white couple challenged an adoption law that protects Native children. Thankfully, the conservative court didn’t buy their argument

Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s majority opinion for the Supreme Court in Haaland v. Brackeen is conservative in the good, old-fashioned sense of the word. In upholding the Indian Child Welfare Act, the court reaffirmed precedent and declined an invitation to revolutionize the law with a reactionary constitutional holding. Along the…