Judge: Tribal Council Candidates Fail To Show Change In Election Policy

(September 4, 2019, 11:12 AM EDT) -- SEATTLE — A federal judge in Washington on Aug. 13 ruled that four people who were unsuccessful in their attempts to get elected to the council for the Nooksack Indian Tribe did not show that the federal government changed the policy for how elections to the council were conducted (Robert Doucette, et al. v. David Bernhardt, et al., No. 18-859, W.D. Wash., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 136494)....