For weeks, I've been waking up early to sit up my computer and refresh the

Scota's blog. It's a website run by a bunch of lawyers about the United States

Supreme Court. It's the fastest place to hear about an opinion. Every day I

wondered, is today going to be the day? Is this the day we're finally going to

get a decision in Carpenter versus Murphy? The cases left to be decided dwindled

down to 24, then to 20, then to 12, until only five were left, and then came

Thursday, June 27th. The last day for decisions to come out. Finally, we know. No

more waiting. I was sitting at my kitchen table in my pajamas with a cup of coffee

in my hand and my browser open. I watched the last decisions of the term get

announced. It was down to just one, just Carpenter versus Murphy. When lose or tie,

we were about to find out. But turns out, I was wrong. Instead of screaming into

the void, I recorded myself just moments after reading the news. Oh my God, I

did not see this coming. So the chief justice just announced that Carpenter V

Murphy will be restored to the calendar for re-argument next term. So it's being

re- argued. So we don't know. There's no decision. Why? Like what? What needs to be re-arued?

That's crazy. Now I've had a week to think about the post-ponement. I spoke to the

attorney general from a Skoggi Creek Nation and legal experts who follow the

Supreme Court and I'm back to share what I've learned so we can make sense of the

surprise development together. What does it mean for the ultimate fate of this

case? What does it mean for the five tribes in Oklahoma? What the heck happens

next? You're listening to this land, a podcast about broken promises, tribal land,

and murder. This year the Supreme Court was supposed to decide whether half the

...