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