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Robert Foss is the Director of Immigration Legal Services Division at the International Institute of Los Angeles.   ---> Subscribe for new podcast episode Email Notifications HERE "Well I think in general, it's interesting to parse the word ecstasis, ecstacy. And ecstasis to stand outside oneself. So it's a kind of, it's an altered state of consciousness, it's a kind of transcendence...but it's also a connection, some sort of realization that on some deep level, one is not alone." /11:37 Supreme Court Cases Referenced The Cherokee Cases were a trio of cases before the Marshall Court:  Tassels' Case: a December 1830 writ of error in the criminal case of George Tassels, mooted by Tassels' execution before the Court could hear the case Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 30 U.S. (5 Pet.) 1 (1831) Worcester v. Georgia, 31 U.S. (6 Pet.) 515 (1832)   United States v. Schooner Amistad, 40 U.S. (15 Pet.) 518 (1841). Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. (19 How.) 393 (1857) In re Ah Fong, 1 F. Cas. 213, 216 (1874) ("we cannot