"Our Nation’s painful history looms large over today’s decision," Biden later added. "The touchstone law respects tribal sovereignty and protects Native children by helping Native families stay together and, whenever possible, keeping children with their extended families or community who already know them, love them, and can help them understand who they are as Native people and citizens of their Tribal Nations." "The Indian Child Welfare Act was passed to protect the future of Tribal Nations and promote the best interests of Native children, and it does just that," the president said.
Senator from Delaware - expressed solidarity with Tribal Nations "as they celebrate today’s Supreme Court decision." In a statement, President Joe Biden - who supported the bill in Congress when he was a young U.S. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented, with Alito writing that the decision "disserves the rights and interests of these children." The "issues are complicated" Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote for a seven-justice majority, but the "bottom line is that we reject all of petitioners' challenges to the statute." Tribal leaders have backed the law as a means of preserving their families, traditions and cultures. The court left in place the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act, which was enacted to address concerns that Native children were being separated from their families and, too frequently, placed in non-Native homes. The justices rejected a broad attack from some Republican-led states and white families who argued that the system is based on race.Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote for a seven-justice majority that the "issues are complicated," but the "bottom line is that we reject all of petitioners' challenges to the statute".The high court left in place the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act, which was enacted to address concerns that Native children were being separated from their families and, too frequently, placed in non-Native homes.The Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the system that gives preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings of Native children.
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