The Supreme Courtroom created a authorized mess with its misbegotten 5-4 McGirt ruling in 2020, and the problems preserve coming. Contemplate the authorized escape hatch for Native American criminals in Oklahoma, and the issue of defining who counts as Native.

Robert Wadkins acquired 40 years in jail for rape and kidnapping. He’s 3/16 Choctaw by blood however turned a tribal member solely after his conviction. He spent 9 earlier years in a white-supremacist jail gang, the Common Aryan Brotherhood.