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The Supreme Court issued a decision Thursday preserving the Indian Child Welfare Act. The law aims to keep Native American kids in tribal families in foster care and adoption cases. This was the third time the Supreme Court has taken up a case on the IWCA. In the not-so-distant past, Native children were stolen from the arms of the people who loved them," Biden said in a statement. Matthew McGill, who represented the Brackeens at the Supreme Court, said he would press a racial discrimination claim in state court.
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The Supreme Court’s Other Racial Preference Case
  + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Racial preferences will be at the Supreme Court again Wednesday, but the issue in Haaland v. Brackeen is adoption, not college admissions. Under federal law, when a Native American child is being placed into an adoptive home, priority goes to parents who are also Native American. That puts tribal interests above what’s best for the child, and it’s a constitutional violation to boot. Chad and Jennifer Brackeen , who aren’t Native American, have taken in two siblings identified as A.L.M. to live in another State hundreds of miles away with either a great-aunt or an unrelated Navajo couple, rather than with her brother A.L.M.”
Among the provisions being challenged is one that gives a preference to Native Americans seeking to foster or adopt Native American children, which those challenging the law say discriminates on the basis of race. The challengers are led by Chad and Jennifer Brackeen — a white evangelical Christian couple who sought to adopt a Native American boy — as well as the states of Texas, Indiana and Louisiana. Tribes have also warned that a ruling striking down provisions of the law on racial discrimination grounds would threaten centuries of law that treat Native American tribes as distinct entities. Both sides appealed to the Supreme Court after the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. The Supreme Court has been closely divided in two major recent cases on Native American issues.
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