Supreme Court declines to hear Native American fight to save sacred site threatened by copper mine

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/politics/oak-flat-arizona-resolution-copper-mine-supreme-court?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit

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  1. The Supreme Court on Monday [declined to step into a fight](https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/politics/oak-flat-arizona-resolution-copper-mine-supreme-court?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit) over a land transfer in Arizona that the Western Apache people say will destroy a sacred site in order to build a massive copper mine.

    Conservative Justice Samuel Alito dissented from the decision to deny the case.

    The federal government had been prepared to transfer the site earlier this year but a federal appeals court in August halted the transaction and scheduled arguments in a separate lawsuit.

    Congress approved the transfer of the federal property in the Tonto National Forest in 2014, and President Donald Trump initiated the land 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.

    A non-profit sued the federal government, asserting that the transfer violated the First Amendment’s free exercise clause and a law that requires courts to apply the highest level of scrutiny to any law that burdens religious freedom.

  4. imagine that, the far from supreme court just project 2025’n all over the place. I hate this fucking country and the fucking cult that is destroying it

  5. Another day another horrible decision by SCOTUS. It isn’t enough The US committed a genocide against people native to these lands, we have to keep on destroying things they care about too?

  6. American Indians are about to show Americans how to do protesting.

    First Nations in Canada almost went to war over a golf course.

    I hope American Indians (sorry I don’t know if that’s the PC way to talk about the first residents) do take a stand. I hope they come from all over the country to stand with their cousins and show the rest of us how to do it.

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