As a US Supreme Court decision on the Indian Child Welfare Act nears, Alaska Rep. Mary Peltola voiced concern this week that the 1978 law seeking to keep Indigenous children with Native families could be found unconstitutional.
Alaska U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola, a Democrat, speaks to reporters after giving an address to state lawmakers on Friday, Feb. 17, 2023, in Juneau, Alaska.
Peltola, the first Alaska Native in Congress, said she was worried that the Supreme Court could strike down the act. Oral arguments this fall saw the justices“There were clues about some other really important court decisions that came out and they ended up being true,” Peltola said. in August 2022 defending the act’s constitutionality and arguing that it does not violate the equal protection clause. Eighty-seven members of Congress signed onto the brief.“Obviously, I’m concerned and I care about it. I’m hopeful based on some of what we heard earlier when that case was heard before the court that we’re gonna be OK on this,” Murkowski said in a brief interview Tuesday. “It is it is something that we’re monitoring very, very carefully.
“The plaintiffs in the Brackeen challenge ICWA as unconstitutional, but placed in proper historical context, the constitutional challenges to Brackeen are revealed as unfounded,” Blackhawk said.
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