cherokee nation. or the knob he. nation because the relationship with these groups is sort of a nation to nation treaty s hourly ship. you talk about the arguments being made here. let s discuss. that the state of texas and several families who are adopting north of the top that canadian children are challenging icwa because they say they must win unconstitutional racial preference. and that the federal law impinges on state autonomy in that area. what is your take on that? they are making two big arguments which is one that the nominated foster parents are just being discriminated against. the irony is that actually for the most part the plaintiffs actually won custody of these native children. when the children also have blood relatives that wanted to raise them. when i investigated what actually happened in the custody cases, i think it actually showed how biased the child welfare system is against the native families. only one native grandmother was able to adopt her grandbaby.
and it took her six years. the other big argument coming from texas is kind of a states rights argument. they are saying that congress basically overstepped its bounds. by passing this law and that congress does not have the authority to pass a law like this. it was passed in 1970. eight it had broad bipartisan support. because congress had learned the decades prior to 1978, between 25 and 35% of all indian children nationwide were removed from their homes. 90% of those children were placed into non indian homes. so if icwa it is undermined, what s in your opinion in 2022 is the impact on the native children? ups elusively. i think there is a lot of evidence that there is a lot of bias in the welfare. system needed children or the foster care at really high rates. what icwa does it help kiet
wealth voters are the sleeping giant in this country. they represent 30% of the election across the board and over 40% of the electorate in every state in the margin of victory has been within 3%. dr. william barr you have a lot of work ahead of you this morning, thank you for taking time to join us. william barber is the president and senior lecturer at repairs of the breeches, the co-chair of the poor peoples campaign. the supreme court s hearing arguments in a case that could overturn a federal law aimed at preventing native american children from being separated from their families. that seems sinister enough. but the case could also major consequences for native rights. explain after the break. plain after the break. we talked with my mom and was like, “hey do you think that we should do something like that for dad?” and she was like “you know what i think that would actually be really cool.” i figured this is a great holiday present since i won t be with him for chris
obviously in violation of the law talking about a war there in a lot to call a warned russia, he was arrested the next day. you tweeted out, just reminded everyone that all these months later, vladimir remains in prison in russia. yeah, vladimir is in, he is now facing 24 years in prison for, quote, treason for basically calling the war and speaking about human rights and russia, vladimir kara-murza is a victim, he should be released. by the way, the canadian government has recently sanctioned the people under the canadian magnitsky act, i would be for the rest of the same thing. phil, thanks for joining us this morning. i appreciate always. the head of the magnitsky act campaign, he s the ceo of he s the author of freezing order, a true story of russian money laundering, murder, and surviving vladimir putin s wrath. he s also the author of the best selling novel, red notice.
polls in that early voter turnout is more important than ever. under the new georgia voting law, signed in 2021, the very controversial voting law, the period between the general election and a runoff is now reduced to four weeks from nine weeks. so, it has such a short window of time that voter turnout is critical. the secretary of state s office reported that at least 70,000 people voted early throughout georgia yesterday. efforts to drum up support for both candidates have intensified, including fundraising and campaigning. according to the new york times, quote, georgia democrats and republicans have a combined $38 million in the television ads, they ve heard more than 700 additional field staffers, and have extended invitations to governors, senators, at least one former president ahead of election day and december 6th, and quote. the president, by the way, is barack obama, who is scheduled to campaign alongside senator raphael warnock again this thursday. the state s republican g