As a fragile two-week truce takes hold in the Iran conflict, host Jacqueline Keeler looks at how the concept of "Jurisdiction" is being used as a weapon both in the Strait of Hormuz and at the U.S. Supreme Court.
We perform a forensic audit of the recent Trump v. Barbara arguments, circling back to the "Ghost of 1884"—the landmark case of Elk v. Wilkins that once ruled American Indians were "aliens in their own land." Jacqueline explores the 1924 Indian Citizenship Act not just as a statute, but as a hard-earned victory led by activists like Gertrude Simmons Bonnin and the service of Native WWI veterans, including Jacqueline’s own great-grandfather and his twin brother in the Air Service.
The big question for today: If our citizenship is merely "statutory," as Solicitor General John Sauer suggested to Justice Gorsuch last week, what happens if that statute is repealed? We discuss the "Nativist" attempt to narrow the 14th Amendment and why the fight for the "Chain of Title" is a matter of survival for Sovereign Nations in 2026.
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