Supreme Court declines to halt land transfer that would destroy sacred site for Western Apache
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The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to halt a land transfer in Arizona by the federal government that Western Apache people say will destroy a scared site in order to mine for copper.
The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to halt a land transfer in Arizona that Western Apache people say will destroy a scared site in order to mine for copper. The decision leaves in place a lower court ruling that allowed the transfer by the federal government to go forward. Two conservative justices — Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas — dissented. Justice Samuel Alito recused himself from the case. “Just imagine if the government sought to demolish a historic cathedral on so questionable a chain of legal reasoning,” Gorsuch wrote in dissent. “I have no doubt that we would find that case worth our time.” “Faced with the government’s plan to destroy an ancient site of tribal worship, we owe the Apaches no less,” he wrote. “They may live far from Washington, D.C., and their history and religious practices may be unfamiliar to many. But that should make no difference.” Congress approved the transfer of the federal property in the Tonto National Forest in 2014, and President Donald Trump initiated the exchange in the final days of his first term. The land includes a site known as Oak Flat, where native tribes have practiced religious ceremonies for centuries.
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