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We will hear arguments first this morning case 189526 mcgirt versus oklahoma. Mr. Chief justice and may i please the court, this case is resolved by the fundamental proposition that decisions about sovereign rights are for congress to make an Congress Makes those decisions by the text. Learly and the decision must be reversed because the text makes clear Congress Never terminated the reservation and never transferred federal criminal jurisdiction to oklahoma. I have four basic points to make this morning. First, there was a reservation. The relevant treaties preserve the land to solemnly goin guarad to govern. The text of the treaties and statutes expressly identified the land of the reservation. Nothing more was needed. Second, congress did not establish, disestablish the reservation. In fact they considered a disestablishment and rejected it and initially sought the section ....

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