Federalism and the Family Law of Tribal Nations

Cullen: I think in a lot of the reception around this, people have been celebrating these figures of before what, you know, what before this law was enacted. And there's rarely the opportunity for someone to sort of stop and question is what's being left in place at all meeting the needs of the people it claims to meet? Or does this still materially punish these families? Cullen: The argument that the states in the case are making is that Congress, despite the fact that tribal nations are labeled as sovereign, that the states have traditional authority over family law. It comes from this, the states argue that it comes from their duty and, and their province of protecting the children who