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The founders of a new anti-colonial advocacy group, Right to Democracy, are traveling to the territory to hold a series of community events open to the public between June 20

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch has spoken up about historic injustice in a way that seems at odds with Republican attacks on 'woke' history.

The exhibition opened Friday, April 28, at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., and will run through February 25, 2024

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa’s unique relationship with the United States has attracted interest from law students at Georgetown University in the U.S and resulte

Congress Has Ability to Resist Conservative Court’s: In 1900, Republican President William McKinley was re-elected over anti-imperialist Democrat William Jennings Bryan thanks to his effective prosecution of the Spanish American War. After McKinley’s election, the Supreme Court issued a series of decisions known as the “Insular Cases” that solidified American sovereignty over Spanish-held islands like […]

The racist framework of the Insular Cases that has been used to justify indefinite colonial administration in the US territories.

The Supreme Court has decided not to hear a case from Puerto Rico that would have challenged the Insular Cases, a series of race-based Supreme Court rulings from the early

For the second time in as many months, the Supreme Court has denied review of a petition calling to overrule the Insular Cases. Today, the Supreme Court of the United States denied the petition for writ of certiorari filed by the Frente Amplio en Defensa de la Educación Pública (“FADEP”), an organization of teachers that broadly […]

The U.S. Supreme Court may have another chance to consider whether the Constitution applies in full to residents of the territories, this time in the case of Puerto Rican teachers

At its annual gala event, the right-wing Federalist Society hosted four sitting Supreme Court justices and celebrated the destruction of abortion rights precedent Roe v. Wade. Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett attended the event, and some spoke briefly, shedding any pretense to nonpartisanship.