Renewing compacts bad for Oklahoma
By Jonathan Small
Special interest attempts to force automatic renewal of existing tobacco and license-tag compacts will create enormous challenges for the state.
The legal reality that undergirded current compacts is under attack by special interests who are inaccurately wielding the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2020 ruling in McGirt v. Oklahoma, which declared the Muscogee (Creek) Nation’s Oklahoma reservation was never formally disestablished for purposes of federal major-crimes law, in an effort to exploit that decision.
