“Where this court once stood firm,” he wrote, “today it wilts.”In November, when the Supreme Court heard arguments in the Indian Child Welfare Act case, Justice Gorsuch questioned lawyers for the challengers vigorously, with flashes of anger and frustration.
“That’s simply not true,” he said to one.
To another, who had argued that there were sound reasons for doubting the wisdom of the law, he said, “the policy arguments might be better addressed across the street,” referring to Congress.
His concurring opinion on Thursday recounted in ugly detail the cruel mistreatment of Native American children over the centuries.
“In all its many forms, the dissolution of the Indian family has had devastating effects on children and parents alike,” he wrote.
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