In 1997, then-Justice Antonin Scalia voted with the majority in Babbitt v. Youpee, where the court ruled that the federal government couldn’t transfer a Native American man’s land to his tribe instead of his heirs if he died without a will unless his family was compensated for it. Years later, the man’s granddaughter, April Youpee-Roll, had the opportunity to meet Scalia at a book-signing event in Washington.When it was her turn to meet the justice, she mentioned her grandfather’s case, and Scalia, to his credit, remembered the facts of it. Then, according to her account of the meeting, he offered up a one-line quip that spoke volumes about the American legal system and tribal sovereignty. “
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