The Supreme Court ruled that Native American tribes were sovereign nations that couldn't be forced from their land. Andrew Jackson saw the federal ruling and decided to remove them anyway. Was the problem that the supreme court couldn't enforce their ruling? Did everyone just look the other way?

by RusticBohemian

CapriciousCupofTea

u/no-tea, u/cdos93, and others have an interesting conversation on this topic on a thread from 4 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/8ibhts/how_did_president_andrew_jackson_get_away_with/

sufficiently_tortuga

Follow up question, did the law change after this or has the supreme Court decided that they're no longer sovereign?

Bad_Empanada

I addressed the background to this recently in this post and the question of the responsibility of Jackson/the Supreme Court/other branches of government in this reply