Supreme Court Asked To Decide Cherokee Land-Into-Trust Dispute

(February 3, 2020, 9:02 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court should reinstitute an injunction barring the Department of the Interior (DOI) from taking 76 acres of land within the historic Cherokee Nation reservation into trust for a Cherokee band, the Cherokee Nation says in a Jan. 23 petition for a writ of certiorari (The Cherokee Nation v. David Bernhardt, et al., No. 19-937, U.S. Sup., 2020 U.S. S. CT. BRIEFS LEXIS 301)....