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Court rejects appeal to give U.S. Samoans citizenship- Associated PressWASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal seeking to give people born in American Samoa U.S. citizenship.In leaving in place an appeals court decision, the court also passed up an invitation to overturn a series of...

The action dashes hopes of American Samoans who were seeking birthright citizenship and leaves intact a decision that breathed new life into distinctions between U.S. states and territories.

The case stems from a lawsuit filed by three American Samoa natives now living in Utah, where they are prohibited from voting or becoming police officers.

Fitisemanu v. U.S. sought to challenge the racist Insular Cases, which treat inhabitants of U.S. territories differently from citizens of the 50 states and D.C.

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to reconsider the so-called "Insular Cases," a series of cases decided in the early 1900s that are infamous today for their racist foundation.

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

And it would demonstrate that originalist judging is not (as some have charged) just a cover for a conservative agenda.

I HAVE just finished reading 1st Circuit Judge Gustavo Gelpi’s book: “The Constitutional Evolution of Puerto Rico and Other U.S. Territories (1898-Present).” For anyone interested in learning about the constitutional

<p>Unique among non-state U.S. territories, people born in American Samoa are not granted citizenship by birth. This legal anomaly traces back to the acquisition of Pacific islands from Spain in a climate of American imperialism and white supremacy. </p>

It was not clear what was the urgency and why the walrus wanted to speak of “cabbages and king” in Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland.”