Opinion and Order by Judge Waddoups (D.Utah) in in Fitisemanu v. United States, a federal lawsuit filed on behalf of passport-holding, taxpaying Americans living in Utah who are denied recognition as citizens and the right to vote because they were born in American Samoa, a U.S. territory since 1900. Fitisemanu makes the case for equal citizenship and challenges the notion that the Insular Cases allow for the continued denial of equality and civil rights in U.S. territories.
Opinion and Order by Judge Waddoups (D.Utah) in in Fitisemanu v. United States, a federal lawsuit filed on behalf of passport-holding, taxpaying Americans living in Utah who are denied recog…