what's life like at the brackeen home? >> we're a very active family. we love the outdoors. in a big family, that's the beauty of it. you're never bored. >> reporter: in 2016, they got a call to take in a 10-month-old boy who happened to be native american. >> they did tell us it was going to be a temporary placement because they would be looking for a native family. >> okay. >> to transition. >> fast forward a year later, he is doing great in our home. he fits right in with our family. we're just a big loving family. >> bring me to the point when you decided let's adopt him. >> i think the bonding, you know, when you see a child that's thriving in your home, that's when the fear sets in of oh, there is potential for something tragic to happen again to this child. >> i just remember thinking this little boy thinks i'm his mom. and i want to be his mom. and for him to just get taken away and moved to someone he's never met before who he's not related to, it didn't seem like the right thing to do as his mom. >> despite approval from the boy's birth mother, the brackeens faced

and the harm in that lawsuit is much more straightforward than the brackeen case. it is money.take for tribes is making a hard to -- it is basically everything. it is tribal sovereignty. interviewing tribal leaders yesterday, a very heavy day at the supreme court for tribal leaders. because not only are our children on the line, but the legal foundation, the legal structure that defends the rights of indigenous nations in the united states is literally at stake. nermeen: one of the points that justice alito made which was extremely controversial, he said indian tribes were often fighting each other before the europeans arrived. your response to that? >> it is really sad but when we take our issues to federal court as indigenous nations, we're not only dealing with justices who literally don't understand federal indian law and don't have one understanding of how the letter of the law works, but they have so many racist stereotypes in their mind about native people that those stereotypes come out during oral arguments. the idea that all indigenous nations were just at war with ea

guys, the brackeens tell me they hope the high court strikes a balance between respect for tribes butep the kids in mind in all this for sure. devin, thank you for that. >>> we head back over to ginger now. >> t.j., happy last day of hurricane season, right? we get a little break until june 1st. i mean, we have seen them in december before but it does not look that active. it was an average season. that's what it turned out. four landfalls in america. we had 14 named storms which is about average. it was just that big break in the summer where we had all the dry air that stopped up all the action for awhile and then we action for awhile and then we >> i'm abc 7 meteorologist drew with your accuweather forecast. dry today. we'll find increasing clouds as the afternoon goes on. mid 50's to low 60's. but we do have stormy weather coming in here overnight tonight. it's a level two, a moderate storm on the storm impact scale with heavy rain, gusty winds, lightly see ponding on area roadways. here's the forecast. stormy morning commute tomorrow. we'll track dry conditions on friday. ♪ frost

. >> earlier this month he wrote in the atlantic, quote, i feel that the brackeen lawsuit is the first could soon go with. it neil gorsuch, one of the court's conservative justices, seem to agree with that concern with the argument that we made last. week saying the other laws related to health care and many other civil liberties would become vulnerable if icwa was overturned. a lot of non native viewers will not really register about the things that people living on native nations enjoy today that could fall, and why that could be detrimental to somebody like you. >> absolutely. gershengorn i like you said in that quote go to a health care clinic to get my health. care we have laws where we have land rights. we pass environmental regulations. there is a lot that tribes it's trouble governments and tribal citizens do because we are part of that political body, the death we are just a racial group and any lobby treatise differently as discrimination, the shift could be radical. i think something that is really important to point out is that the pro bono law firm for the plaintiffs, the