Mealey's (February 27, 2023, 1:09 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The federal government on Feb. 24 waived its right to respond to a Native American’s petition for U.S. Supreme Court review of a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals holding that the government can use state law to prosecute a tribal member for eluding tribal police on tribal land, which the petitioner says runs afoul of high court precedents....