The opening merits brief was filed today in Tuaua v. United States, a landmark case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that considers whether Congress can redefine the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to deny birthright citizenship to people born in the U.S. territory of American Samoa.

When will being a part of the United States mean being able to vote for President?

If Americans in U.S. territories are good enough to serve in times of war, they deserve the right to vote for their Commander-in-Chief.

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Four Million Others in Territories Can’t Vote for President.

Judge Torruella: Insular Cases Represent “Morally Bankrupt Era in Our History”

 Conference Also Highlights Landmark D.C. Circuit Case About Citizenship in U.S. Territories

“Reconsidering the Insular Cases” was the theme yesterday at Harvard Law School in a conference addressing the constitutional rights of the over 4 million Americans who live in U.S. territories.  The Insular Cases are a series of controversial and deeply divided Supreme Court decisions from the early 1900s that have been compared to Plessy v. Ferguson and criticized as establishing a “separate and unequal” status in U.S. territories.  The conference featured presentations by leading academics and commentators and also highlighted We the People Project’s landmark case Tuaua v. United States, which directly addresses many of the flawed assumptions often attributed to the Insular Cases. 

Neil Weare, President of We the People Project and lead counsel in Tuaua v. United States, makes the case on CNN.com that citizenship in U.S. territories is a constitutional right, not a congressional privilege.