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EQUALLY AMERICAN

Neil Weare
Honolulu, HAWAII — President Joe Biden’s administration is under pressure to reject racist case law that helps shape the federal government’s relationship with U.S. territories. But some residents of at least one Pacific territory are concerned about the potential implications of upending the...
NEIL WEARE
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Plaintiffs in the citizenship case (Fitisemanu v. United States) will take their case to the Supreme Court of the United States after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit denied their petition for review by the full court last week. Neil Weare, president and...
Courtroom, 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, Colorado
Denver, COLORADO —  Whether people born in U.S. territories have a constitutional right to U.S. citizenship will depend on how the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit rules following argument yesterday in Fitisemanu v. United States, attorneys for John Fitisemanu stated in a press release...
Lead plaintiff John Fitisemanu's passport says, "THE BEARER IS A UNITED STATES NATIONAL AND NOT A UNITED STATES CITIZEN." (Katrina Keil Youd / Equally American)
Los Angeles, CA — They are called American Samoans. But many residents of the U.S. territory — an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean — don't feel American. That's because people born in American Samoa are not U.S. citizens unless one of their parents is a citizen. A lawsuit filed in Utah...