My just-published Jotwell review focuses on Michael Ramsey's important new article,, "The Originalist Case Against the Insular Cases." Here is an excerpt: In the Insular Cases of the early twentieth ...

The United States Supreme Court declined to hear a case that sought to challenge American Samoans’ lack of birthright citizenship and to overturn the so-called “Insular Cases,” according to NPR. In ...

At the turn of the century, the infamous “Insular Cases” established a legal colonial framework by which the United States used racist logic to justify colonial governance over its so-called ...

This blog was updated on August 22, 2023. Over 100 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a series of rulings known as the Insular Cases that still prevent millions of people — overwhelmingly, ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Oklahoma State Historian Matthew Pearce discussed the transition from territorial status to statehood in the context of the U.S. acquisition of ...

An important new article explains why the Supreme Court's precedents denying many constitutional rights to residents of America's overseas territories are wrong. In the Insular Cases of the early ...