Military Veterans Living In U.S. Territories Sue For Right To Vote

For some-more than a decade, islanders from U.S. territories as good as U.S.-affiliated Micronesian island nations have been joining a troops during high ratessignificantly aloft commission of casualtiesNative Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders are overrepresented in a U.S. Army by 249 percent,

Comedian John Oliver took on a voting rights emanate in his Mar 8 part of “Last Week Tonight” on HBO, saying, “More than 4 million people live in U.S. territories, some-more than 98 percent of them are secular or racial minorities, and the some-more we demeanour into a history

Denying voting rights to residents of America’s island territories stems from a array of Supreme Court decisions in a early 20th century. The decisions, as Oliver forked out, found a territories were inhabited by “alien races” who might not know Anglo-Saxon laws.

“There are a lot of difficult issues surrounding what a accurate standing of all a U.S. territories should be and what a people who live there would prefer, though surely, when it comes to denying Americans a right to vote, we have to find a improved reason than citing a 100-year-old authorised preference created by a racist

H/T Honolulu Civil Beat

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