Supreme Court Preserves Adoption Law That Aims to Keep Native American Children With Tribes

The Supreme Court on Thursday preserved a decades-old federal law that seeks to keep American Indian children with their families and tribes in custody proceedings.

In a 7-2 decision, the justices rejected a multi-pronged challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) on various grounds, keeping the law intact and handing a major victory to Indian tribes.

“But the bottom line is that we reject all of petitioners’ challenges to the statute, some on the merits and others for a lack of standing,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote for the majority.

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