WT: Sen. Elizabeth Warren slammed the Trump administration after it threw a $1 billion casino project into doubt by ruling the federal government could not take land into trust for a Massachusetts tribe, an issue she has championed as she fights criticism over her disputed claims of Cherokee ancestry.
The Massachusetts Democrat vowed to move forward with legislation after the Bureau of Indian Affairs admitted defeat Friday in its two-year search for a legal avenue to take 320 acres into trust on behalf of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe.
The Interior Department agreed in 2015 to hold land in trust for the tribe, a condition for building the tribal casino, but a year later U.S. District Court Judge William G. Young blocked the decision, ruling that the tribe was recognized about 73 years too late to qualify under the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act.
“The decision by the Trump administration to move forward with denying the Mashpee Wampanoag a right to their ancestral homeland and to keep their reservation is an injustice,” Ms. Warren and Sen. Edward J. Markey, both Massachusetts Democrats, said in a statement.
The senators have sponsored the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Reservation Reaffirmation Act, which would override a 2009 Supreme Court decision, Carcieri v. Salazar, that ruled only tribes recognized as of 1934 qualified for land in trust. The Mashpee did not gain recognition until 2007. more here
Wouldn’t it be nice if
Lizzy-baby
got off the drugs and started acting like a
sane person ?
I wonder how much wampum was in it for Fauxcohontas.
The Mashpee who?
It’s amazing that now the libs want to ignore precedent and stare decisis.
Gee Wally, I think “She-Who-Hunts-At-Whole-Foods” been drinkin too much firewater again.
Yeah Beave, she got hold of Mad Max’s Peech Foty Fi Malt liquor… the big Fo-Oh!
This ruling happened in 2016. This is spooky Trump action at a distance. Apparently, he cast a huge shadow ahead of him.
She’s really getting down on Her knees for those Chiefs, and all for a Faux Indian Green Card.
Recognized in 2007: formed by faux-co-HAUNT-us as her ancestral home?
“Mashpee Wampanoag Chairman Cedric Cromwell…”
Chairman Cedric looks more like he belongs to the Blackfoot Sue Tribe. What a scammer. Check his goddam DNA, too.
I hate mashed peas.
Cedric Cromwell—isn’t that an English name? Don’t remember any Indians coming over on the Mayflower from my school studies waaay back when. How come it took until 2007 to recognize them as Indians-where have they been hiding? Are they a “lost” civilization recently discovered?
just pass’n thru, it may be an English name, but today, there is not a single white person in America named Cedric. And I believe all of this crap started when Rosey Grier joined the cast of “Daniel Boone”.
Argh! My 2 US Senators are morons. God save the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Why is this a Trump problem? It sounds like this is the logical outcome of court proceedings and bureaucratic wrangling that preceded the Trump administration.
But….Warren was a Senator then. Is Fauxcohauntas now fauxconcerned after the fact? It seems more equitable to blame some politician who was actually in office then, like Warren, than Trump.
@Anonymous September 12, 2018 at 10:11 am
This is He. Just got your message. Tell you what… Turn the whole thing into a reservation, so we can finally dump that crazy bitch… oh, and the Kennedys… all the damn Kennedys… and I got your back. Call Me when the paperwork’s ready.
Faux just rolled snake eyes at Trumps casino..