BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The U.S Justice Department, representing the federal government, contends that the Petition for a Writ of Certiorari filed by three individuals born in American Samoa and residing in Utah, to review a U.S citizenship decision by a federal appeal’s court “should be denied...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Government and Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata have argued that the citizenship issue pertaining to persons born in American Samoa, is “an exceptionally poor vehicle for reconsidering the Insular Cases”, and should wait for a case that actually requires...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In a 44-page response filed yesterday, the American Samoa Government and Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata, asked the U.S Supreme Court to deny a request by three American Samoans living in the Salt Lake City, Utah to review a decision by the majority of the U.S. Tenth...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The “Insular Cases were correctly decided”, and “there is no reason to question their soundness”, according to two organizations in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) that filed a joint amicus brief — or “friends of the court” brief — in the U.S....
Boston, MASSACHUSETTS — May the United States rule foreign territories without granting their inhabitants constitutional rights? Yes, according to landmark Supreme Court decisions in the “Insular Cases” more than a century ago. Without those decisions, our overseas territorial empire could not...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In April, John Fitisemanu the lead plaintiff in Fitisemanu v. U.S petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to take up his case, recognize him as a U.S. citizen, and overrule the Insular Cases — after a divided panel of the Tenth Circuit Court denied that the Fourteenth...
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...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The U.S State Department and its top officials who are federal defendants in the Fitisemanu v. USA citizenship case have filed their opposition to a petition by three American Samoans who are the plaintiffs — for a “rehearing en banc” or the full-panel of the U.S. Tenth...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Government and Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata have filed their opposition to a petition by three American Samoans who are plaintiffs in the Fitsemanu v. USA citizenship federal case, for a “rehearing en banc” or the full-panel of the U.S. Tenth Circuit...
To the Congresswoman,
With due respect Congresswoman Uifa’atali you did publicly demand I address “self-determination” and I did so in detail. I see from the reasoned responses especially the very thoughtful one from Talifaitasi Satele in Samoa News that people understand that “self-determination”...