National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center and National Congress of American Indians, Amici Curiae
Mary Kathryn Nagle, Counsel of Record
The National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center and the National Congress of American Indians are both organizations representing the interests of native Americans and tribal governments. The following is excerpted from the Brief for Respondent as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on November 1, 2018. Overturning the Court’s long-standing precedent regarding the dual sovereign doctrine, which has allowed both tribal and the Federal governments to prosecute for violations of their respective criminal laws, would have significant ramifications in Indian country. Not only would it undermine core principles of local control for criminal justice, it would preclude the effective prosecution of…
