{"id":536427,"date":"2026-05-18T22:33:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T03:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/?p=536427"},"modified":"2026-05-18T22:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T03:34:07","slug":"supreme-court-orders-another-look-at-native-voting-rights-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2026\/05\/18\/supreme-court-orders-another-look-at-native-voting-rights-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court orders another look at Native voting rights case"},"content":{"rendered":"\"U.S.<\/a>
The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. Photo by Indianz.Com (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)<\/a><\/figcaption>\r\n
Supreme Court orders another look at Native voting rights case<\/div>\r\n
Monday, May 18, 2026<\/div>\r\n
By Acee Agoyo<\/div>\r\n
Indianz.Com<\/div>\r\n

<\/p>\r\nThe U.S. Supreme Court<\/a> continues to upend the voting rights landscape amid a crucial election cycle that already has tribes and their advocates worried about their power at the polls.\r\n

<\/P>\r\nThis time, the highest court in the land finally took action on a long-delayed Native voting rights case from North Dakota. In an order on Monday<\/a>, the justices gave new life to a dispute in which tribes and tribal citizens are challenging a legislative map<\/a> that they say is illegal.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nBut unlike a recent decision that has Native advocates reeling, the move in \r\nTurtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians v. Howe<\/EM><\/a> is being seen as a positive. Attorneys representing tribal plaintiffs are hoping to prove they are right when the case returns to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals<\/a> for further litigation.\r\n

<\/p>\r\n\u201cThe Supreme Court was correct to vacate the Eighth Circuit\u2019s decision, which wrongly prevented Native voters and Tribal Nations from vindicating their rights under the Voting Rights Act,” Lenny Powell, a staff attorney with the Native American Rights Fund<\/a> (NARF), said in a news release on Monday.\r\n

<\/p>\r\n“On remand, we will keep fighting to ensure that Native voters have the ability to vote and effect change in their communities,\u201d said Powell<\/a>, who is a citizen of the Hopland Band of Pomo Indians.\r\n

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