Justice is being thwarted by the McGirt decision.

Recently, a man came home and was horrified to find his two 5-year-old Boston Terriers dead or near death. His neighbor’s two German shepherds had busted through a six-foot privacy fence and entered his house through a doggy door while he was away. Then they attacked his dogs, whom he had raised from puppies.

A Broken Arrow animal control officer went to the neighbor to investigate and the neighbor ordered him off his property because he belongs to a tribe and under McGirt, he had no authority over him or his dogs.

Tribal officials will take no action because tribal law doesn’t address a situation in which someone’s dogs kills another person’s beloved pets. State law does, but it no longer applies to Indians. Tribal officials claim they are looking into the case.

The owner of the deceased Boston Terriers is suing his neighbor because that is his only recourse. And nothing has been done about the German Shepherds.

When the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the McGirt decision, they turned law enforcement upside down in Oklahoma. Any crime committed by an Indian or against an Indian can be shifted to the tribal courts or federal courts.

Tribal courts and federal courts are overloaded with cases and the result is that only major cases are prosecuted. This hurts non-tribal members and can really hurt members of the tribes who are victims of crimes.

This needs to be fixed and the Supreme Court is not going to remedy this. Congress needs to step in and rectify this situation before it gets more out of hand.

Justice is under siege with McGirt.