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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.”

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

The Biden administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to pass over the opportunity to overrule a series of century-old rulings called Insular Cases.

The Justice Department and the government of American Samoa this week asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a case related to territorial rights.

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

Justice White really had a bone to pick back then huh.

Land ownership restrictions in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands are important to preserve cultural ties to the land, said Northern Marianas indigenous rights activist John Gonzales.

THE Northern Marianas Descent Corporation and the United Carolinian Association have filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court, opposing the petition of three American Samoans who have asked

Century-old rulings by the Supreme Court continue to deny residents of “unincorporated territories” full citizenship rights.