Acknowledging that the decisions rendered by the United States Supreme Court in the so-called Insular Cases rest on the same racist and ethnocentric assumptions leading to Plessy v. Ferguson’s infamous “separate but equal” doctrine, that the legal doctrine emanating from the Insular Cases has no place in United States Constitutional law, and that the Insular Cases must be rejected in their entirety.

H. Res. 641 · 116th Congress · Oct 18, 2019 · Lineage

RESOLUTION

Acknowledging that the decisions rendered by the United States Supreme Court in the so-called Insular Cases rest on the same racist and ethnocentric assumptions leading to Plessy v. Ferguson’s infamous separate but equal doctrine, that the legal doctrine emanating from the Insular Cases has no place in United States Constitutional law, and that the Insular Cases must be rejected in their entirety.

That the House of Representatives—

(1)

recognizes the importance of supporting equal rights and upholding the interests of Americans living in the United States territories;

(2)

acknowledges that the Insular Cases rest on racist and imperialist assumptions that have no place in the constitutional landscape of the United States; and

(3)

rejects the Insular Cases and their application to all present and future cases and controversies.

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Oct 18, 2019viewing Introduced in House Mr. Grijalva (for himself, Miss González-Colón of Puerto Rico, Mr. San Nicolas, Mr. Sablan, and Ms. Plaskett) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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