Page 3 - Insular Case News Today

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal seeking to give people born in American Samoa U.S. citizenship.

A trio of American Samoan plaintiffs are asking the high court to end their status as second-class citizens.

President Joe Biden's administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday not to take up a case regarding citizenship rights for American Samoans despite advocates who say it would give the high court a chance to undo decades of precedent that Justices Neil Gorsuch and Sonia Sotomayor have decried as racist.

WASHINGTON (The Washington Post/Pacnews) — The Biden administration told the Supreme Court Monday that it should not take up a case about citizenship rights for American Samoa even though advocates

A petition by 3 American Samoans calls on the court to overturn the 100-year-old Insular Cases that deemed people in newly acquired territories as "uncivilized."

“The U.S. has a basic colonies problem by first of all denying that they have colonies,” former Guam Del. Robert Underwood said Thursday. “It denies these areas the core American

By Eric Bellone, Suffolk UniversityThe 4 million inhabitants of five U.S. territories – Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Northern Marianas Islands, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands – do not have the full protection of the Constitution, because of a series of Supreme Court cases dating back to 1901 that ...

Without equal voting rights and congressional representation, the Americans living in these territories cannot remedy their status at the ballot box.

The four million inhabitants of five U.S. territories do not have the full protection of the Constitution, because of Supreme Court cases.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary...