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Unconscionable Cobell (The Hill’s Congress Blog)

The Senate is asked today to give approval, sight-unseen and by unanimous consent, to a $3.4 billion ?settlement? of a 14-year-old lawsuit brought by five individuals on behalf of all American Indians who have money or land held in trust by the United States. [A column by Richard Monette, law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.]