On the recordMay 11, 2021
At the core of the disenfranchisement of territory residents are the racially charged series of Supreme Court decisions in the early 1900s--the Insular Cases.
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Plaskett connects disenfranchisement to historical Supreme Court decisions known as the Insular Cases.
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