Justice Neil Gorsuch, the court's most vocal advocate for tribal interests, issued a blistering dissent all but accusing his colleagues of being indifferent to Native American religious practices.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take up a challenge to a land swap enabling mining at a sacred Indigenous site, garnering pushback from conservative justices Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas.

Supreme Court Oak Flat Apache sacred site case denied review, clearing path for Resolution Copper to transform religious site into a crater