Supreme Court Vow Not to Be ‘Hacks’ Tested by Tribal Case Appeal

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett said recently that she and her colleagues aren’t “a bunch of partisan hacks.”

The state of Oklahoma is testing that notion, at least in the eyes of American Indian tribes.

Governor Kevin Stitt (R) wants the court to reverse 2020’s McGirt v. Oklahoma, the 5-4 ruling hailed by tribes as a long-overdue endorsement of their sovereignty in much of the eastern part of the state. Justice Neil Gorsuch, in his majority opinion, was unmoved by the state’s warnings of public-safety disaster if the court ruled as it did.

Doubling down on those ...