In this case, a white evangelical Christian couple argued that the Indian Child Welfare Act violated the Constitution. (via Deadline: Legal Blog)
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected challenges to a law meant to preserve Native American families and culture., a 1978 law that seeks to keep Native American children with their extended family, another family in the tribe, or a family from another tribe in cases of foster care and adoption. Its passage“The issues are complicated,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett
. “But the bottom line is that we reject all of petitioners’ challenges to the statute, some on the merits and others for lack of standing.” Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented.was a white evangelical Christian couple from Texas, Chad and Jennifer Brackeen. Backed by Texas and other right-wing institutions, they argued, among other things, that the law violated equal protection by drawing racial distinctions.
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