Voting rights case and proposed constitutional amendment will be subject of presentation at Stetson Law School.

Academics, Political Leaders, and Civil Rights Groups Call For Recognition of Birthright Citizenship in U.S. Territories, Reconsidering of Controversial Insular Cases

Does the Citizenship Clause entitle persons born in U.S. territories to birthright citizenship? This is the question raised by prominent Supreme Court attorney Theodore B. Olson in a petition for certiorari filed today on behalf of a group of passport-holding Americans denied recognition as U.S. citizens because they were born in American Samoa.  Tuaua v. United States makes the case that Congress cannot legislate an exception to the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to exclude persons born on U.S. soil, whether born in a State or Territory.

Theodore B. Olson Joins Case Seeking Recognition of Birthright Citizenship in U.S. Territories

Veterans Day is a painful reminder of inequality for veterans in America’s territories who are disenfranchised because of where they live.

Lawsuit a Part of New Push for a Constitutional Amendment to Provide Representation and the Right to Vote to All Americans, Wherever They Live