Congressional Brief : 87 Members of Congress signed this brief defending ICWA in the four principle arguments in the case State AG Brief : 23 states and the District of Columbia signed on to this brief, which highlights how ICWA allows and encourages tribal-state relations in the area of child welfare. [read post]

  Soon afterwards, the states of Texas, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, and Nebraska filed suit, arguing that the definition that the actuarial group adopted “foist[ed] nearly $500 million of taxes” onto the states in just three years because of a fee that the Affordable Care Act imposed (but which was repealed in 2019). [read post]