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The love of land still burns bright for Native Americans | Aeon Essays
Via: Steve Ott • Anishinaabe - The First People • 6 Comments • 1 Like • 4 years ago
“Native American peoples are still here and still caring for their land. Can their conquerors say the same?”
And it is time to set aside nation-state prejudices and the exclusion of Native peoples from a voice in the management of environmental relations. We will all be better off if that voice is allowed genuine authority to help shape decisions affecting our world.
Supreme Court Strikes Down Montana Blaine Amendment Barring State Aid to Religious Schools
Via: Steve Ott • News & Politics • 69 Comments • 2 Likes • 4 years ago
“The decision is an important victory against government discrimination on the basis of religion.”
While I am happy about the result of this decision, I am troubled, though not surprised, by the 5-4 division along ideological lines, which replicates the one that happened in the 2018 travel ban case (with the exception of Justice Kennedy, who has since retired from the Court). The conservative...
As Arizona coronavirus cases surge from early reopening, Indigenous nations suffer not only more COVID-19 but also the blame
Via: Steve Ott • Anishinaabe - The First People • 13 Comments • 2 Likes • 4 years ago
“Tribal lands are hot spots for COVID-19 infections and deaths. Racism is one of the reasons.”
We live in a political, governmental and judicial system that treats Black and brown bodies as disposable. We are governed by a collective mindset that rigidly enforces economic disparity, political disenfranchisement, environmental injustice and extreme policing. The difficult but doable task...
Trump Has Dismantled More Monuments Than Any Protest | HuffPost
Via: Steve Ott • News & Politics • 93 Comments • 10 Likes • 4 years ago
“The president is threatening 10-year prison sentences for anyone who vandalizes a monument. He has destroyed four himself, including one honoring...”
He has destroyed four himself, including one honoring Native American cultural heritage.
This Republican Senator Calls Three Black Men Peacefully Carrying Long Guns 'Mob Rule' - Reason.com
Via: Steve Ott • News & Politics • 30 Comments • 1 Like • 4 years ago • LOCKED
“A Second Amendment hypocrite with a plan to undermine federalism”
Once again, blacks openly carrying is "mob rule". Whites openly carrying in the Michigan capitol is crickets. Neither group was breaking any laws by openly carrying long guns.
Tribe sues Trump administration over checkpoint interference
Via: Steve Ott • Anishinaabe - The First People • 5 Comments • 1 Like • 4 years ago
“'The tribe's health safety checkpoints are a lawful exercise of our sovereign authority and intended to protect our people from sickness and...”
"The tribe will exercise its sovereign authority to the fullest extent to protect its tribal citizens," Ducheneaux said. "We have faced pandemics, and we have faced fights with the United States before. We know how to fight, and we know to protect ourselves."
The True Extent of Religious Liberty in America, Explained - The French Press
Via: Steve Ott • News & Politics • 10 Comments • 2 Likes • 4 years ago
“The citadel of religious liberty may be under attack, but its walls are high and strong.”
Christians aren't nearly as persecuted as they like to think. They just need to understand the law, like everyone else.
Who Can Fire a Court-Appointed U.S. Attorney? An Abrupt Legal Fight, Explained
Via: Steve Ott • News & Politics • 9 Comments • 1 Like • 4 years ago
“The top federal prosecutor in Manhattan had refused to let the attorney general fire him, but acquiesced after William P. Barr invoked the president.”
The declaration by the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan on Friday night that he would stay in his job despite Attorney General William P. Barr’s attempt to fire him raised not just the mystery of what was behind Mr. Barr’s move, but also a legal question: Who has the authority to remove him?
Meet Mike Chase, the Lawyer Behind @CrimeADay - Reason.com
Via: Steve Ott • News & Politics • 11 Comments • 2 Likes • 4 years ago
“You can get five years in federal prison for selling llama poop, according to Title 7 of the United States”
Q: Why should we take your opinion seriously about these crazy laws? A: I don't know if anybody should take my opinion seriously about this, but I will tell you that by day I'm a white-collar criminal defense lawyer. I'll defend anybody for anything. By night, I spend a lot of time trying to...