Domination Chronicles 006: Supreme Court Justices Attack 'plenary power' over Native Peoples
A guide to Episode 6 on plenary power, Supreme Court dissent, and possible tectonic changes in federal Indian law.
Published on: | Published by: Steven T. Newcomb | Tags: plenary-power supreme-court federal-indian-law podcast
A dissent by Justices Gorsuch and Thomas opens questions about the future of the plenary power doctrine in U.S. law.
The plenary power doctrine is one of the central legal mechanisms by which federal domination is asserted over Native nations. Episode 6 is valuable because it tracks a Supreme Court dissent that questions that structure from within the Court’s own language.
This short resource post is part of an Indigenous Law Institute guide to the Domination Chronicles archive. The goal is to help readers move from ILI’s work on empire, Christian discovery, federal Indian law, and the right of domination into the podcast conversations where those themes are examined episode by episode.