Tribes' reduced jurisdiction & Gorsuch's diminished influence over major Indian law

SCOTUS' Castro-Huerta ruling another wake-up call for tribal sovereignty.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. (Getty Images)

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court, in a decision that will have the most wide-ranging reverberations in Indian Country this term, today ruled that the state of Oklahoma could oversee matters of criminal jurisdiction over non-Indians on tribal lands. In short, it creates a whole new underpinning of…