Here is the order in Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians v. Enbridge Energy Company (W.D. Wis.) allowing Enbridge to continue to trespass on Ojibwe lands without any meaningful consequence because they are an oil company and Canada likes their oil(?):
Prior post here.
Neoshia Roemer has posted “Reproducing Citizenship” on SSRN.
Highly recommended.
Here is the abstract:
Almost immediately after taking office on January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump signed the Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship Executive Order. This Order limits birthright citizenship based on the immigration status of a child’s parents. This Article posits this is an Executive attempt to limit which families reproduce in ways that are beyond state power. If the government can limit birthright citizenship on the grounds it proposes, it effectively controls citizen making—which is to take control of the family. If we are to believe any myth about our constitutional republic, a long held truth is that the family maintains the right to reproduce on its own terms, not the government’s. The people choose their government, not the other way around.
Through barely coded language that reproduces racist and nativist attitudes, the Order attempts to control the reproduction of citizenship by imagining and excluding the mythical “illegal” immigrant to handpick who becomes a citizen. With this understanding, this Article situates this issue on the axes of constitutional law and reproductive justice, discussing efforts to limit birthright citizenship as a matter targeting select families. This Article proposes a “constitutional rights plus” framework that demonstrates the reproductive rights of the parent and the child’s right to citizenship are linked and inseparable. This is an attack on the entire family to control which families produce citizens. Utilizing the reproductive justice framework, this Article argues that the Executive Order reproduces citizenship in four ways. First, by reifying the bounds of who constitutes a family, the Order reproduces family discrimination. Second, the Order reconstructs the noncitizen regime of Dred Scott that would effectively render some children stateless and open to exploitation. Third, the Order reproduces family punishment and subordination by ensuring some families are punished for existing and remain subordinated through labor regimes. Fourth, the Order reproduces poverty as it locks families and children into a regime of cyclical poverty that they cannot escape.
Here is the complaint in Guidiville Rancheria of California v. Bluerock Real Estate Holdings LLC (N.D. Cal.):
Here is the unpublished opinion in Anchorbilt Inc. v. Arviso Construction Company Inc.:
Here is the petition in Flying T Ranch Inc. v. Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians:
Question presented:
Under the immovable-property rule, may a party sue an Indian tribe, without the latter’s consent, in a State court to quiet title to real property located in that State but which is not within the boundaries of the tribe’s reservation and is not held in trust by the United States?
Lower court materials here.
Here are new materials in Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians v. Enbridge Energy Company (W.D. Wis.):
A Resource for Indian Country: Coalition for Tribal Sovereignty
What is the Coalition for Tribal Sovereignty?
Launched in early 2025, the Coalition for Tribal Sovereignty (CTS or Coalition) is a nonpartisan collaboration of nearly 40 inter-Tribal, policy-focused, non-profit organizations from across the United States. CTS’s member Tribal organizations regularly engage on coordination at the national and regional levels to support Indian Country with tools to use when interacting with the Trump Administration and others about the Administration’s policy initiatives, with the goal to get those tools into as many Tribal advocates’ hands as possible.
While member organizations continue their own advocacy and education efforts, CTS compliments those efforts by interfacing collectively with federal officials in the Administration and on the Hill regarding actions taken by the Trump Administration. CTS offers a space and platform for Tribal organizations to build consensus on key messaging and legal arguments, allowing CTS to speak with a single powerful and consistent voice. To learn more, visit our website at CoalitionForTribalSovereignty.Org.
What Tools Has CTS Created?
Access the Meeting Materials Toolkit here. The materials can be downloaded as individual documents or in a single toolkit PDF.
The Federal Grand Termination Toolkit is available for download as part of the password protected page on the CTS website. Please email info@CoalitionForTribalSovereignty.org for the access password. Please see the access page here.
These materials are available for download as part of the password protected page on the CTS website. Please email info@CoalitionForTribalSovereignty.org for the access password. Please see the access page here.
Why Now? The Coalition exists for one core purpose: to support Tribal Nations and Tribal organizations as they defend Tribal sovereignty and trust and treaty rights amid rapid and sometimes harmful impact of policy changes. In response to new executive orders, funding shifts, agency actions, and more that often overlook Tribal Nations’ sovereignty, the government‑to‑government relationship, and trust and treaty obligations, Tribal‑serving organizations came together to ensure Indian Country’s rights and status are respected and protected. By uniting local, regional, and national advocates who had previously been working in silos, the Coalition provides coordinated, proactive advocacy so that fast‑moving federal decisions do not erode Tribal Nations’ inherent sovereignty or the trust and treaty rights on which our communities rely.
What is Our Topline Message? CTS educates the Administration on why programs serving Indian Country are not like other federal programs because: (1) they deliver on the United States’ trust and treaty obligations to Tribal Nations, Tribal citizens, and Native communities, for which we prepaid with our lands and resources; and (2) the U.S. Supreme Court has said United States actions that deliver on trust and treaty obligations are not unconstitutionally race-based but are instead political in nature. CTS works to engage with the Administration on why and how it should insulate Indian Country from the disproportionate and potentially unintended negative impacts of its policy actions, while also finding opportunities to work with the Administration to pursue important shared priorities.
How Do I Access CTS Tools? To learn more about CTS and to access our material, please visit CoalitionForTribalSovereignty.Org. To subscribe to our newsletter, visit https://coalitionfortribalsovereignty.org/coalition-action-center/contact-us/. You can reach the CTS team, including to request the website password, by emailing info@coalitionfortribalsovereignty.org.
Here are the materials in Avoyelles Water Commission v. Ward 3 Avoyelles Waterworks District (W.D. La.):
Turtle Talk 
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