This episode analyzes the recent Supreme Court decisions that have been handed down.

The first part is great political analysis and the second part follows up on that analysis so if you'd

like to listen to the second half please subscribe to our Patreon. Thank you. So, Oh, go down go on here. All right. We are live with the Supreme Court decision 2023 reaction.

I'm here with co-host from the Red Power Hour.

We have Elena Ortiz and Malaniazzi.

This is Nick Estes signing on live.

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Our, uh, what's the word, our poorly produced podcast we don't even have like real sound

an indication that we're live but yeah it's a Saturday afternoon we thought that this would be a good idea. This is Melanie by the way. We thought that this would be a good idea just because you know last year Roe v. Wade was overturned right and there were important cases related to Native people, to

sovereignty, to Indian country, important decisions that were handed down by

Skodes last summer. Maybe I just didn't notice this in the past, but I feel like every June will now become like getting punched in the face repeatedly season. You know, I know there's a lot of things that happen in June, but now that there's this slew of very impactful and long-term impactful cases or decisions being handed down by

SCODAS. I believe June will become the season for this from this point forward so it just seemed important for us to get

on here and to just talk about all of these decisions and their implications and try to provide some

sort of political analysis. By Skodes, we do mean the Supreme Court of the United States.

And I just taught a law, sovereignty and treaties class last semester and we went we try to do a

comprehensive kind of reading of the major Supreme Court decisions for

federal Indian law and their implications for the present. I had a kind of in preparation for this expected ICWA decision, but basically I if we want to just jump right into it. I mean we've done several recordings on the Supreme Court, but I mean one thing that I find really fascinating is how elevated the Supreme Court is in

society and how it's one of the most undemocratic institutions and I think for

Native people it's even more so because you add a layer of

colonialism into it I think you know I have a lot to say about Neil Gorsuch

who's kind of been heralded as the defender of Indian Rights on the Supreme Court.

And I have some comments about him, but basically I'll say this, you know, off the bat, reading Neil Gorsuch's opinions on Indian

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