Projo 7 to 7 News Blog

Journal photo / Gretchen Ertl
Former U.S. Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson, center, heads today to the U.S. Supreme Court. This afternoon, the court will hear the state's appeal on whether 31 acres of Indian tribal land in Charlestown can be taken into trust. Until Friday, the question of whether Olson or Charlestown's assistant solicitor of Indian Affairs Joseph S. Larisa Jr. -- or both -- would present the case was still up in the air. Olson now has that task, while Larisa will sit at the table. The case that could reopen the question -- bitterly disputed for decades -- of whether the Narragansett Indians can build gambling casinos and other enterprises over the objections of their neighbors in South County and the state of Rhode Island.

Read an analysis of the case by Journal staff writers John E. Mulligan and Katie Mulvaney, and come back later today for more reports from the two.

 Tags  Charlestown U.S. Supreme Court

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