A Texas challenge to the federal Indian Child Welfare Act might not be entirely successful in at least nine states where state laws impose similar restrictions on the adoption of Indigenous children by non-Native parents, some experts say.
The Supreme Court has been asked to hear a challenge from a Texas couple who called the law unconstitutional after it kept them from adopting a Navajo child they had been fostering. The law was meant to stop the removal of Native children from their culture, a...