Navajo Nation fight over Colorado River water rights hits Supreme Court

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'The Nation is still waiting for the water it needs,' the tribe writes in court papers, asking the justices to greenlight a 'breach-of-trust claim' in federal court.

At the Supreme Court on Monday, the tribe will face off with the federal government and a group of states over what it calls a "broken promise" to bolster the reservation's water supply.Colorado River, a resource long the subject of litigation between states and carefully apportioned under a labyrinth of agreements to meet the needs of nearly 40 million Americans across the West.

"No substantive source of law expressly establishes the particular duty that the Navajo Nation asserts," the government said in a court filing. The states – Arizona, Colorado and Nevada – argue the Navajo Nation should never have been able to bring the claim in the first place, since the Supreme Court has asserted exclusive jurisdiction over disputes involving the Colorado River in a series of decisions and decrees over decades.

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The cruelty of the American people is just boundless.

The United States Government signed a agreement with the Navajo nation. If the Courts do not enforce it, any treaty or agreement with this government is meaningless and not worth the paper it was written on.

Not that interesting.... What we do wonder about is why is racist Sunny Hostin still on your network

The Navajo deserve the water before Liberfornia gets one drop .

Do the Mormons own those also?

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