Members of Congress to Call on DOJ to Denounce Insular Cases

On Wednesday, April 17, 2024, at 12:15 p.m., Members of Congress, civil rights groups, and other allies will hold a press conference to discuss the need for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to disavow and cease its reliance on the Insular Cases, a series of egregiously racist U.S. Supreme Court decisions that broke from prior precedent to justify the second-class treatment of the U.S. territories. The Insular Cases stand alongside infamous decisions such as Dred Scott v. Sandford, Plessy v. Ferguson, and Korematsu v. United States, yet unlike those decisions, they continue to be defended by DOJ.

[@MyrtleBarry-ow5yl]

Thank you everyone for your participation in today's demonstration in pressing for our US Constitutional rights .

[@kindredd8867]

Thanks for your efforts regarding the rights of those who live in the territories, it is ridiculous that I can take a plane and voilá I have a lot of benefits and rights that are denied in the territories, let's all move to a less populated state so they take notice, regrettably a lot of people who can promote a change do not care...

[@Protect-fy2jg]

Not everyone is for this in the US territories.

[@rp2050]

Not everyone was for the Emancipation Proclamation for slaves, not everyone was for Women's Suffrage and Voting Rights, not everyone was for the 1965 Civil Rights Act, not everyone was for the end of Apartheid. There's a right side of History... and not everyone will be standing on the right side at the right time.

[@Protect-fy2jg]

@@rp2050 Your rhetoric is being applied indiscriminately. The people in the territories are not slaves. Women can vote there. No one in the territories wants apartheid. The residents in the US territories who are US citizens want the right to vote for the US President. That's a worthy cause. But applying the US Constitution indiscriminately with complete uniformity and without regard for the specific history of each territory can cause great harm. The right side of history would be to protect the right to self-determination for the native peoples of each territory in the Pacific.