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Residents of U.S. Territories Deserve the Basic Rights of American Citizenship (New York Law Journal)

New York Law Journal, October 24, 2022

Residents of U.S. Territories Deserve the Basic Rights of American Citizenship

The New York City Bar Association joins with the American Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association in calling on the Biden Administration, Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the harmful effects of the so-called ‘Insular Cases,’ which deprive the residents of U.S. territories of the most basic rights of American citizenship and are anathema to democratic principles.

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