(November 3, 2016, 10:51 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Mackinac Tribe in Michigan on Oct. 17 took its battle to have the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) convene an election to adopt a tribal constitution to the U.S. Supreme Court, saying lower courts’ rulings that the tribe has to first go through a 30-year process to be officially recognized by the federal government fly in the face of high court precedent (Mackinac Tribe v. Sally Jewell, Secretary of the Interior, No. 16-539, U.S. Sup.; 2016 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 3787)....