Members of Oklahoma’s congressional delegation are asking for more than $300 million to help tribes with law enforcement and judiciary obligations created in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s McGirt v. Oklahoma decision. That decision shifted crimes committed on reservation lands from the state criminal justice system to the tribal and federal systems.
The Oklahoman’s Chris Casteel writes the members wrote in their letter to the Chair of the U.S. House Appropriations Committee that since the McGirt decision was handed down in 2020, “it is effectively bankrupting the affected tribes in Oklahoma.”
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