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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...