WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — Navajo lawmakers are scheduled to meet in a special session tomorrow to consider overriding two presidential vetoes.
Lawmakers approved a measure by a 67-6 vote to turn over power reserved for the tribe’s attorney general to the legislative counsel last month .
The tribe also favored a bill that prohibits the tribal courts from using a set of laws based on centuries-old traditional Navajo values and customs. It passed 56-17.
Navajo President Joe Shirley Jr. has vetoed both measures. Joe Shirley says, they were politically motivated and would weaken the tribal government.
An override requires 59 votes, or a two-thirds vote of the 88-member Tribal Council.
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