"As an author of one of these briefs, I am free to admit the lie."
The relationship between scholarly amicus briefs and scholarship
Indian Law
Harriet McConnell Retford on Arizona v. Navajo Nation
"[The decision] showcases the now-familiar contrast between the Court’s two different approaches to conservative jurisprudence: the strict formalism of Justice Gorsuch—a stern insistence that the United States live up to the letter of its legal obligations come hell or high water—as opposed to the status-quo, stare decisis driven conservative jurisprudence of Justice Kavanagh and Chief Justice Roberts."
Prof. Todd Henderson (Chicago) on Arizona v. Navajo Nation
"[T]he Court held that despite being a 'trustee' for the Navajo Nation and despite having promised the Navajo water sufficient to make its lands productive, the United States does not have an obligation to help the Navajo obtain that water."