DOI Had No Authority To Take Land Into Trust For Cherokee Band, Tribe Says

Mealey's (June 2, 2020, 8:44 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of the Interior (DOI) drastically overstepped its authority in taking 76 acres into trust for a band of the Cherokee Nation, and U.S. Supreme Court review is needed to correct a 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling upholding the agency’s actions, the nation argues in a May 28 reply brief (The Cherokee Nation v. David Bernhardt, et al., No. 19-937, U.S. Sup.)....