*obviousLY absurd. You know what I meant.
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Lawyer friends, help me out. Is there any way this guy's claim WASN'T obvious absurd? If I got arrested in France I wouldn't get to claim the gendarmes had no authority to search my car, on the grounds that I'm not a French citizen, would I?https://twitter.com/SCOTUSblog/status/1399730440026550278 …
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Well, both the District Court and the ninth circuit bought the argument, so it isn’t completely absurd. But the Supreme Court’s holding is unanimous. The interplay between tribal law, and state and federal law, is massively complex. This seems to be the crux of the matterpic.twitter.com/Uz7zK2mroV
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well, I know law is often a very different thing from common sense or morals, but "the general proposition that the inherent sovereign powers of a tribe to not extend to the activities of nonmembers of the tribe" seems, on the latter grounds, like a very bad proposition
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tl;dr, native tribes are legally considered soviergn but are prohibited from doing many things to non-natives in the tribal land. SCOTUS found that the search qualified under one of the few exceptions
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