On January 15, an Alaska State Appeals Court heard arguments in Tupe Smith v State of Alaska, the case over American Samoans who ran for local office in Whittier, Alaska. See this story.
On January 15, an Alaska State Appeals Court heard arguments in Tupe Smith v State of Alaska, the case over American Samoans who ran for local office in Whittier, Alaska. See this story.
American Samoa might not be a state, but being a US territory are they not still “subject to the jurisdiction” (language from the 14th Amendment) of the United States? This separate treatment of American Samoans seems all kinds of unconstitutional, but we’d need a government and courts that actually give a darn about the document and human rights for this to be resolved.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/reagan-appointed-judge-accuses-rubio-224227228.html
TRUMP HACKS AT WORK – 1 AMDT VIOLATION
Persons born in Puerto Rico, for example, are US Citizens by statute, not the US Constitution. There are specific statutes for Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Guam, Northern Marianas, the Panama Canal Zone, and American Samoa. This is also true for persons born in foreign countries to US Citizen Parents, if certain conditions are met.
“United States” is a plural noun.
“subject to the jurisdiction” applies to the status of the person, and not the status of the location of birth. The SCOTUS will determine what this means in a case ‘Trump v. Barbara’ which will be heard sometime this year.
“Joshua H” is probably communist troll retard Robert K Stock.
I am not Joshua H. I have NEVER used a pseudonym. I am retired from politics. I have written a letter to Mr Winger asking that I be permanently blocked from commenting on this site. This should be my last post. Being permanently blocked from commenting should settle the question of my using pseudonyms. I NEVER have.
Whatever Stock. We know it’s you. You are also Taran and Dylan.
It could be Knapp
American Samoa has not been granted US citizenship because the leaders of the territorial government have not requested it. This is so because the territorial legislature has a unique feature whereby certain heads of native clans have de jure seats in the legislature, and they believe that US citizenship would overturn this feature under the equal protection clause. This has not been unique to the American Samoa. After WW2, when the US acquired the Pacific Trust Territory, their inhabitants also had hereditary leaders in their local legislatures, and so were not granted US citizenship during the entire period of their trusteeship. Those islands have become the associates states of the Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau.
I suppose, in theory, if Greenland became a US territory, the Greenlanders could reject US citizenship and continue to run the local legislature according to their own rules.
It is also noteworthy that during the entire period that the Philippines were a US territory, they were never given US citizenship. This was, in fact, okay with the Filipinos, because from the very first territorial elections, the pro-independence Nationalist Party controlled the territorial legislature and advocated for Philippine independence during the entire period.
If they had asked for statehood, and became a US state, they would now be the most populous US state, by far.
Knapp is praising the Chinese and Xi. He’s evil.
Stock is openly a dirty commie. Knapp is slowly coming out of the closet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insular_Cases
SCOTUS OPS — USA IMPERIALISM AT WORK
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=153872
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Secession would be their best move. Nothing good comes from vast nation states with 9 and 10 figure populations and territories spanning more than one ocean.