The Consequences Of Divide-And-Conquer: Carcieri Redux

By Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Michigan State University College of Law (November 17, 2016, 5:25 PM EST) -- In Carcieri v. Salazar, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Narragansett Tribe was not "under federal jurisdiction" in 1934, and therefore the U.S. Department of the Interior could not acquire land in trust for the tribe. The DOI's decision to acquire trust land for the Cowlitz Tribe is one of several controversial post-Carcieri trust acquisitions. Now comes a petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court from the challengers, Citizens Against Reservation Shopping v. Jewell....

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