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 ...

Consider the right-wing commentator Tomi Lahren. She was apparently unaware of the fact that people born in Puerto Rico—such ...

Civil rights groups are challenging a series of racist U.S. Supreme Court rulings that have been used for over a century to legally justify discrimination against people in Puerto Rico and other ...

During labor strikes in Puerto Rico at the end of World War I, journalist and organizer Jesús M. Balzac published two editorials criticizing the island’s white Kentucky-born governor, Arthur Yager.

The Supreme Court declined Monday to consider whether American Samoans have full U.S. citizenship at birth, a dispute that would have given the justices the opportunity to repudiate past rulings ...

The Supreme Court has made a terrible habit of saying things that later generations understand to be odious. The court is ever-conscious that its reasoning will be important for future cases, so it is ...

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 ...