US Supreme Court Rules Against Navajo Nation in Water Rights Case
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The Navajo Nation had argued that their water rights were protected under an 1868 treaty.
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Navajo Nation has been fighting this particular battle against every sitting US government for tye past 20 years. Is the Biden administration one of those sitting governments or not?
So why not just say "The US Government" instead of "the Biden administration" If the battle has been going on for several decades, why call out the current administration particularly? Because then you can point to this and say "see what a horrible person Biden in who personally is responsible for this happening!"
Because the facts are the facts. The Attny General of the Biden Administration could have conceded the case and the water rights at any point Biden wanted. Biden chose to do the same thing Trump, Obama, and Bush did. The same thing every US president has always done when the indigenous folks rouse some rabble about the promises we made to them.
The treaties aren't some secret, they were written down and you can read them for yourself. The people signing it agreed on the words to communicate their intentions. Make your own opinion and decide whether Bidens administration fought this over the genuine intentions of the promises made in the treaty, or over the modern interests of current and future non-indigenous voters. Think for yourself, form your own opinion rather than wringing your hands over the optics of the headline.
The Federal government has been hellbent on killing off the remaining Native Americans for the entirety of its existence. They can't do it with force, so they do it with legislation.
The moment the last Native American leaves their reservation is the moment fuckin' Exxon or Nestle or some other cuntcorp rolls in to assrape the environment there.
That's just how legal cases work... if you sue a state, it's documented in court records as a suit against the sitting governor. If the governor changes, the title of the suit changes.
Same thing here with the president. It doesn't matter who wins the election... any ongoing court cases are now against the new chief executive of the government.
Is that true? This case was Arizona v. Navajo Nation, which was consolidated with Department of the Interior v. Navajo Nation. These cases were brought by the government, not by the Navajo, but if they were, this case would have still been Navajo Nation v. Arizona. Is the respondent/defendent not the same as who the case is "against?"
Welcome to how government works. When Trump was in office it was the Trump administration. When Obama was in office it was... you'll never fucking guess... the Obama administration.