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Tom Cole: “This really is a huge problem jurisdictionally because historically you gave tribes the ability to have jurisdiction…”

On the recordMarch 24, 2009
This really is a huge problem jurisdictionally because historically you gave tribes the ability to have jurisdiction over their people but you did not give them any jurisdiction with people on their land that were not of their tribe
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Tom Cole
Republican · Oklahoma

Editor's note · Context

Cole discusses jurisdictional issues affecting law enforcement on tribal lands.

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