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Insular Cases
We support Congressional and DOJ repudiation of race prejudice in 1901-1922 Insular Cases. But we also call for Congressional and DOJ rejection of any further attempts like the Fitisemanu case in 2022 for courts to change the political status of American Samoa under the 1900-1904 Deeds of Cession,...
The letter dated April 15, signed by numerous members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate and addressed to the U.S. Attorney General, underscores the continuing interest and concern about the legacy of the historical and modern era Insular Cases.
American Samoa has had a different...
WASHINGTON — The US Department of Justice is being urged to condemn and cease its reliance on the Insular Cases - a series of US Supreme Court opinions on US territories, which have been labelled racist.
Senate Judiciary Committee chair Dick Durbin called them "a stain on the history of our...
Providence, RHODE ISLAND — Over 3.5 million Americans currently live in the United States territories, a number that is roughly equivalent to the populations of the five smallest states combined. These residents of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the US Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The “Insular Cases were correctly decided”, and “there is no reason to question their soundness”, according to two organizations in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) that filed a joint amicus brief — or “friends of the court” brief — in the U.S....
Boston, MASSACHUSETTS — May the United States rule foreign territories without granting their inhabitants constitutional rights? Yes, according to landmark Supreme Court decisions in the “Insular Cases” more than a century ago. Without those decisions, our overseas territorial empire could not...
Honolulu, HAWAII — President Joe Biden’s administration is under pressure to reject racist case law that helps shape the federal government’s relationship with U.S. territories.
But some residents of at least one Pacific territory are concerned about the potential implications of upending the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “The Insular Cases are the problem, not the solution,” declared local attorney Leiataua Charles V. Alailima in May 26th written testimony to the US House Committee on Natural Resources, saying that he supports H.R. 279 — “Insular Cases Resolution — pertaining to “Insular...