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A Minnesota couple had challenged laws that prioritize tribes in Native American adoptions. Plus: GOP lawmakers say Minnesota's voting system is rife with fraud, with little evidence; campaign coverage from this week; and more.
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court’s new session began this week and the justices have already decided to hear a number of landmark cases.
Those include one that will decide whether the Constitution guarantees the right to possess AR-15s and other semiautomatic rifles and another that will rule on the constitutionality of the Trump administration’s immigrant detention policy.
But among the cases the high court has rejected is a Minnesota challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act.
That law was approved in 1978 as an attempt to remed...
