{"id":30503,"date":"2015-11-20T01:44:20","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T01:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/military-veterans-living-in-u-s-territories-sue-for-right-to-vote\/"},"modified":"2015-11-20T01:44:20","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T01:44:20","slug":"military-veterans-living-in-u-s-territories-sue-for-right-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/city\/hawaii\/military-veterans-living-in-u-s-territories-sue-for-right-to-vote.html","title":{"rendered":"Military Veterans Living In U.S. Territories Sue For Right To Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some-more than a decade, islanders from U.S. territories as good as U.S.-affiliated Micronesian island nations have been <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">joining a troops during high rates<\/a><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">significantly aloft commission of casualties<\/a><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders are overrepresented in a U.S. Army by 249 percent, <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comedian John Oliver took on a voting rights emanate in his Mar 8 part of &#8220;Last Week Tonight&#8221; on HBO, saying, &#8220;More than 4 million people live in U.S. territories, some-more than 98 percent of them are secular or racial minorities, and <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">the some-more we demeanour into a history<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Denying voting rights to residents of America&#8217;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 &#8220;alien races&#8221; who might not know Anglo-Saxon laws.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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 <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">100-year-old authorised preference created by a racist<\/a><\/p>\n<p>H\/T <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Honolulu Civil Beat<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Also on HuffPost:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/c\/35496\/f\/677521\/s\/4ba5a8e6\/sc\/7\/l\/0L0Shuffingtonpost0N0C20A150C110C180Cveterans0Eus0Eterritories0Esue0Efor0Eright0Eto0Evote0In0I860A5320A0Bhtml0Dutm0Ihp0Iref0Fhawaii0Gir0FHawaii\/story01.htm<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-30503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaii","tag-hawaii-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}