![]() ![]() ![]() Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) calls the provision about those tribal courts a result of “unconstitutional demands of special interests.” Special interests being women. All across the conservative landscape, voices of opposition have been coming out of the woodwork. While there are some Republicans begging the House leadership to pass a bipartisan bill on the double, it’s not just Congress they’ll have to convince. Currently, Native American courts don’t have jurisdiction over domestic violence committed by non-native men on tribal lands. Native American women are two-and-a-half times more likely to be raped than other women, and three out of five are victims of domestic violence. They’re still hung up on what might seem like a minor provision, which they’ve been battling about for a year and a half. But House Republicans (who killed the legislation in the last Congress) have yet to introduce their version of the bill. On February 12th, the Senate passed a reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) with broad bipartisan support. ![]()
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