Guardians of Grail

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lack the authority to sentence defendants to more than three years in prison. The harshest enforcement tool a tribal officer can legally wield over a non-Indian is a traffic ticket.The result has been a jurisdictional tangle that often makes prosecuting crimes committed in Indian Country prohibitively difficult. In 2011, the U.S. Justice Department did not prosecute 65 percent of rape cases reported on reservations. According to department records,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], one in three Native American women are raped during their lifetimes—two-and-a-half times the likelihood for an average American woman—and in 86 percent of these cases,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the assailant is non-Indian. Last April,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Senate members added a provision to the Violence Against Women Act,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], first passed in 1994, that would allow tribal courts to prosecute non-Indians who sexually assault tribal members. But the bill has languished since House Republicans opposed the measure as a dangerous expansion of tribal independence—it is, after all,http://www.ewwealth.com/, a partial reversal of the Supreme Court's