By The Imprint Staff Reporters, The Imprint, November 8, 2021
Last month, half of the states in the nation and the District of Columbia joined the federal government and four federally recognized tribes in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act.
The Indian Child Welfare Act, commonly referred to as ICWA, was signed into law 43 years ago today to correct the practice of removing Indigenous children from their families and placing them in non-tribal adoptive or foster homes. The 1978 law is now at the heart of child custody cases involving Indigenous children.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta headed the coalition. In a friend-of-the court brief filed last month in the Supreme Court, Bonta and the other attorneys general support the Department of the Interior’s position that parts of a ruling by a federal appeals court in North Texas were wrongly decided.
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