This week, the U.S. Senate Indian Affairs Committee approved a bill aimed to stop construction of the Tohono O’odham casino in the West Valley.
This follows a series of legal decisions that have generally favored the tribe in this dispute.
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To try and sort out what’s going on, and what may happen down the road, we turn to Robert Clinton, Foundation Professor of Law in the Indian Legal Program at ASU’s O’Connor College of Law.