Supreme Court Upholds Native American Adoption Law

“The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a 1978 law aimed at keeping Native American adoptees with their tribes and traditions, handing a victory to tribes that had argued that a blow to the law would upend the basic principles that have allowed them to govern themselves,” the New York Times reports.

“The case pitted a white foster couple from Texas against five tribes and the Interior Department as they battled over the adoption of a Native American child.”