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Australia strikes in-principle agreement with Solomon Islands for new treaty

Australia and Solomon Islands have reached an in-principle agreement on a landmark new treaty, with a leaked text…
#Australia #AU #Austrlia #Deal #SolomonIslands #Treaty
https://www.europesays.com/australia/90223/

Manx space group urges election candidates to back treaty
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=manx-space-group-urges-election-candidates-to-back-treaty
<p>The Isle of Man Mars Society is urging politicians to sign an international space exploration
#candidates #election #treaty #space

Manx space group urges election candidates to back treaty
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=manx-space-group-urges-election-candidates-to-back-treaty
<p>The Isle of Man Mars Society is urging politicians to sign an international space exploration
#candidates #election #treaty #space

Manx space group urges election candidates to back treaty
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=manx-space-group-urges-election-candidates-to-back-treaty
<p>The Isle of Man Mars Society is urging politicians to sign an international space exploration
#candidates #election #treaty #space

Manx space group urges election candidates to back treaty
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=manx-space-group-urges-election-candidates-to-back-treaty
<p>The Isle of Man Mars Society is urging politicians to sign an international space exploration
#candidates #election #treaty #space

Supreme Court Rules Against #NavajoNation in #WaterRights Case

The vote was 5 to 4, with the majority finding that an 1868 treaty did not require the federal government to ensure the tribe had access to water.

By Adam Liptak
June 22, 2023

"The Supreme Court ruled against the Navajo Nation on Thursday in a water rights case, rejecting the tribe’s suit against the federal government in a dispute over access to the drought-depleted Colorado River system.

"The vote was 5 to 4, with Justice Brett M. #Kavanaugh writing for the majority. He said the 1868 peace treaty at the heart of the case did not require the federal government to take 'affirmative steps' to secure water for the Navajo.

"In dissent, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, joined by the court’s three liberal members, said the tribe’s request was more modest than that, adding that the government had violated the plain terms of the #treaty and had given the tribe an epic runaround.

"'To date, their efforts to find out what water rights the United States holds for them have produced an experience familiar to any American who has spent time at the Department of Motor Vehicles,' he wrote. 'The Navajo have waited patiently for someone, anyone, to help them, only to be told (repeatedly) that they have been standing in the wrong line and must try another.'

"He added that the runaround had persisted for decades: 'When this routine first began in earnest, Elvis was still making his rounds on ‘The Ed Sullivan Show.’

"The Navajo Tribe is one of the largest in the United States, with more than 300,000 enrolled members, Justice Kavanaugh wrote. And its reservation, a product of the treaty, is the biggest in the nation, spanning more than 17 million acres in parts of #Arizona, #NewMexico and #Utah. It is about the size of West Virginia.

"In the arid West, Justice Kavanaugh wrote, 'water has long been scarce, and the problem is getting worse.'

"The tribe sued the federal government in 2003, seeking to compel it to assess the tribe’s needs and devise a plan to meet them. The states of Arizona, Colorado and Nevada intervened in the suit, seeking to protect their own access to water from the #ColoradoRiver system."

Read more (via Internet Archive):
https://web.archive.org/web/20230622180057/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/22/us/politics/supreme-court-navajo-nation-colorado-river-water.html/

#WaterIsLife #Dineh #Navajo #SCOTUS #ClarenceThomasResign #RespectTheTreaties #EnvironmentalRacism