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The U.S. Supreme Court is seen behind barbed wire and barricades on 2nd Street NE in Washington, D.C. The more well-known entrance on 1st Street NE is currently unreachable by the general public following the violence at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Photo by Indianz.Com (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Notes from Indian Country
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
By Tim Giago (Nanwica Kciji – Stands Up For Them)
My newspapers started to complain about the lack of Native Americans as federal judges in the 1980s mostly because of a man who served on the Supreme Court way back then.
His name was William Hubbs Rehnquist and he was an American lawyer and jurist who served on the Supreme Court of the United States for 33 years, as an associate justice from 1972 to 1986 and as Chief Justice from 1986 until his death in 2005. Considered a conservative, Rehnquist favored a conception of federalism that emphasized the Tenth Amendment’s reservation of powers to the states. Under this view