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I imagine Congress is going to pass a law the ensures that Tulsa is not on part of the reservation. ...because that would be ludicrous.

The Supreme Court is essentially forcing Congress to take a stance.

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This is what Justice Thomas has been doing for a long time now (to a fault), and Gorsuch has also taken up: Congress, do your job rather than make the judicial branch perform extralegal bench activism.

Sure in theory Thomas is doing that, but it feels a lot like cosplay when such a resolution would go against his general views on power in general (see this case).

People might have their legal doctrines, but it’s rarely as clearcut as you lay out and all the justices can only at most be “problematic faves”

I agree on Thomas, hence the "to a fault" part in parens.

“to a fault” means “to an extent verging on excess.”

You seem to be using it to mean “to a point limited sharply by his policy preferences”, which is pretty much the opposite.

Large parts of Tacoma Washington are tribal land owned by non-tribe members and it functions. I would assume a similar arrangement would work in Tulsa.

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