Hey, drilled listeners. We are working on our next season. That'll be coming at you in

just a couple of weeks. But in the meantime, I wanted to bring you an episode of one of

my favorite shows, Five to Four. Five to Four is a podcast about how much the Supreme

Court sucks, which should be pretty evident, given the Court's willingness to hear cases

that would completely gut our ability to regulate carbon emissions like West Virginia versus

EPA. Every week, Five to Four takes on the Supreme Court's worst decisions about the most

important issues, like police abuse, the Second Amendment, and voting rights. Today, I'm

sharing an episode called Adoptive Couple vs Baby Girl, which is a case about the Indian

Child Welfare Act and Tribal Court jurisdiction. In its Five to Four decision, the Supreme

Court wound up completely inverting the meaning of a law meant to protect Native American

communities. This is a case I actually had an opportunity to learn a lot about last year

working on the show This Land. There's another challenge to the Indian Child Welfare

Act that follows very much in the footsteps of Adoptive Couple vs Baby Girl that the Supreme

Court just granted cert to. So this is absolutely an issue that keeps coming back. And the

attack on Iqua is very much an attack on tribal sovereignty in general, one that benefits

a couple of different industries, including the fossil fuel industry. This is a great primer

on those efforts, starting with the first really big case Adoptive Couple vs Baby Girl

in 2013. Each episode of Five to Four covers a Supreme Court case that reveals the ways

in which the justices can tort the law, make stupid legal errors, and generally hack away

at our democracy. As the court shifts further and further to the right, Five to Four is your

guide to how this supposedly a political institution wields its power. Find Five to Four wherever

you get your podcasts.

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