Clarence Thomas' criticism of my research in a Native rights case reveals originalism's big flaw.
If judges are going to use history as their guide, they should probably try to get the history right.
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If judges are going to use history as their guide, they should probably try to get the history right.
Debate over the United States Constitution didn’t just happen inside the cloistered halls of the Pennsylvania State House in 1787. Complex conversat
Image courtesy of Stanford Law School on April 29, 2021 Elizabeth Reese, Yunpoví (Willow Flower in the Tewa language), was born on the Nambé Pueblo reservation, one of the oldest continually inhabited Indigenous communities in the U.S. that sits just north of Santa Fe, New Mexico and where she is tribally enrolled. She grew up immersed in Nambé’s culture, participating in traditions that date back thousands of years to that exact location. But when her parents decided to pursue Ph.D. degrees, her family moved to Champaign-Urbana, Illinois — where they found themselves the only Native...
“This decision helps all of Indian Country in efforts to protect tribal lands and natural resources as well as the betterment of all people of southeast Idaho,” Chairman Devon Boyer of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes said.