A dissent by Justices Gorsuch and Thomas opens questions about the future of the plenary power doctrine in U.S. law.
Peter and I use this dissent to ask what becomes possible when the Court's own members challenge the assumed congressional power that has been treated as virtually unlimited in federal Indian law.
I am sharing this episode here because it belongs with my wider work on the language of domination, Christian discovery, federal Indian law, and the continuing reality of Original Nations' free existence. Each conversation in Domination Chronicles is another way into that inquiry.