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

On the recordMay 11, 2021
At the core of the disenfranchisement of territorial 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 the disenfranchisement of territories to historical Supreme Court rulings.

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