Gregorio Sablan: “I hope that, Madam Chair, as part of a memorial, we can take up this long overdue technical correction in Federal…”

The explicit reasoning behind the most famous of the cases, Downes v. Bidwell in 1901 was that the new territories are inhabited by alien races that could not be governed by Anglo-Saxon principles.

Ever since, the Insular Cases have been used to block territorial efforts for equal treatment in essential Federal programs from Medicaid and food stamps to SSI.

It is unacceptable to be cutting food aid in the middle of the economic crisis caused by the pandemic.

This is the reason why democrats passed the largest single Federal investment in K to 12 education in U.S. history in the American Rescue Plan, to help communities and school districts return to in-person learning and to help students with…