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The Supreme Court Upheld the Indian Child Welfare Act. The Long ...

The decision, by a 7-2 vote, meant that the law will continue to require giving preference to placing adoptable Native American children with ...

Now more than ever, Congress must amend the Indian Child ...

The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) has been called “the most unconstitutional law in America,” and for good reason. The 1978 law hasn't ...

Sovereignty under attack - Native Governance Center

Haaland, the Supreme Court case challenging the Indian Child Welfare Act ... If the Court rules that ICWA violates the Constitution's equal ...

Fixing the Indian Child Welfare Act - Discourse Magazine

In Brackeen, parents teamed up with a few states to challenge the constitutionality of various ICWA provisions. ... They won in the lower courts.

The Constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act

§ 23.2. 73. As the act is very extensive, I will only highlight the main portions relevant to understanding the act or relevant to Constitutional challenges ...

SCOTUS ruling on ICWA a victory for welfare of Native American ...

Native people and legal experts applauded the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on Thursday leaving intact the civil rights law called the Indian ...

Supreme Court hears case challenging who can adopt Indigenous ...

As the Supreme Court considers the constitutionality of the Indigenous Child Welfare Act, many Native Americans anxiously await the outcome.

Supreme Court to hear constitutional challenge to the Indian Child ...

Second, a majority also reversed the lower court ruling that the Act's classification of who qualifies as an "Indian child," which is the ...

5th Circuit upholds Indian Child Welfare Act as constitutional ...

The appeals court overturned a 2018 decision from a federal district judge who ruled that the law, which gives adoption placement preference ...

U.S. Supreme Court upholds Indian Child Welfare Act in 7-2 decision

The Brackeens challenged ICWA after a long legal battle with the Navajo Nation to adopt a Native child. The couple eventually adopted the child ...

The Necessity of the Indian Child Welfare Act - The Atlantic

In 2017, Texas filed Brackeen v. Bernhardt, challenging the federal government's regulation of states' treatment of Native children in foster ...

Equal Protection and the Indian Child Welfare Act

See Addie Rolnick & Kim Pearson, Racial Anxieties in Adoption: Reflections on Adoptive Couple, White Parenthood, and Constitutional. Challenges ...

The Hill: Now more than ever, Congress must amend the Indian ...

The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) has been called “the most unconstitutional law in America,” and for good reason. The 1978 law hasn't ...

Supreme Court's Native American adoption ruling leaves door open ...

The decision was seen as a “resounding victory” for the Indian Child Welfare Act, which gives Native families preference in adoption and foster cases involving ...

US Supreme Court ruling rejects challenges to Indian Child Welfare ...

In a 7-2 ruling, the court rejected non-Indigenous adoptive parents' and the state of Texas's challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), ...

U.S. Supreme Court affirms landmark Indian Child Welfare Act in 7-2 ...

“Today, the Supreme Court once again ruled that ICWA, heralded as the gold standard in child welfare for over 40 years, is constitutional.

Supreme Court rejects challenges to law that governs tribal adoptions

“In adopting the Indian Child Welfare Act, Congress exercised that lawful authority to secure the right of Indian parents to raise their ...

Supreme Court takes up the Indian Child Welfare Act - ICT News

The ruling, however, found ICWA unconstitutional based on claims that the act violates the anti-commandeering doctrine included in the 10th ...

'Huge Win for Tribes' as US Supreme Court Preserves Indian Child ...

"Today, the Supreme Court once again ruled that ICWA, heralded as the gold standard in child welfare for over 40 years, is constitutional," ...

Court strikes down Native American adoption law, saying it ...

The ruling is a victory in the eyes of state attorneys general in Texas, Louisiana and Indiana, who argued the Indian Child Welfare Act imposed ...