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Stacey Plaskett: “At the core of the disenfranchisement of territory residents are the racially charged series of Supreme Court decisions…”

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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Stacey Plaskett
Democratic · Virgin Islands

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Plaskett connects disenfranchisement to historical Supreme Court decisions known as the Insular Cases.

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