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« Rug once owned by Doris Duke sells for record $4.4M | Today | Woonsocket man's murder sentencing postponed » June 5, 2008Presidential counsel on governor's tribal land case teamGovernor Carcieri's office will rely on the legal acumen of former U.S. Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson in its fight to keep control of 31 acres owned by the Narragansett Indian Tribe. Olson, a partner with the Washington, D.C., firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, will join a legal team of Assistant Attorney General Neil F. X. Kelly; Joseph S. Larisa Jr., Charlestown’s solicitor on Indian affairs; and Claire J.V. Richards, Carcieri’s former deputy legal counsel, in arguing the Indian land case before the U.S. Supreme Court this fall, according to a U.S. Supreme Court docket. Olson served as the government’s top lawyer before the high court under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2004. As an appellate lawyer, he successfully argued the disputed 2000 election case in favor of George W. Bush before the Supreme Court. He represented President Ronald Reagan during the Iran-Contra affair as assistant attorney general during the 1980s. -- Journal staff writer Katie Mulvaney Olson's wife, conservative political commentator Barbara K. Olson, was a passenger on the hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 that was crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed in February to decide whether the U.S. Department of Interior should be allowed to take the 31 acres just north of Route 1 into trust on behalf of the Narragansett Indians. Trust status would remove the land from most state and local laws, placing it under tribal and federal control. The tribe bought the land in 1991 for development of housing for its elderly. The state filed suit against the Interior Department after the federal agency agreed to take the land into trust for the tribe in 1998. The parcel is across Kings Factory Road from the 1,800 acres that Congress granted to the Narragansetts in a landmark land-claims settlement law 30 years ago. Lawyers have argued the case could have big implications for Indian land disputes across the country. Sixteen states from New England to Alaska joined Rhode Island in appealing a decision by the federal appellate court in Boston that favored the Narragansetts. Posted by maria caporizzo CommentsFrank Martin | June 5, 2008 3:29 PM link give the land back, make the govener give up his henry | June 5, 2008 5:24 PM link O.K. NOW ENOUGH IS ENOUGH Carceri is costing this state big time in tax dollars just to keep the indians from building a casino.If he would just put this money to the poor instead of taking it away from schools and the citizens of Rhode Island.afterall the casino cant pay its way as it is hmmmm... carceri give the indians a casino and we will all be better off please leave office you are ruining this state Danny P | June 5, 2008 10:43 PM link Why can't one shake the belief this is really about protecting state sponsored gambling from Indian competition? Is it true what they said in "L.A. Confidential" about 'Dudley taking over the rackets'? Might Judge Frank Williams and his 'associate', Girard R. Visconti, Esq. have a hand in this endless squabble? Paul Vincent Zecchino paul vincent zecchino | June 6, 2008 6:52 AM link Post a commentPlease be civil. Vicious comments, personal attacks and profanity won't be published. Name and email are required; email address will not publish. |
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Who's paying for this? We're 500 million in the whole and we can afford this dream team? Don't tell me Carcieri's not prejudiced>