American Samoa is the only unincorporated territory of the United States where the inhabitants are not American citizens at birth.
Instead, those born in the cluster of islands some 2,600 miles southwest of Hawaii are granted "U.S. national" status, meaning they can’t vote for U.S. president, run for office outside American Samoa or apply for certain jobs. The only federal election they can cast a vote in is the race for American Samoa’s nonvoting U.S. House seat.
"Our people value American Samoa’s right of self-determination, with great love for the United States as expressed in our people’s high rate of service to the country," she said in a statement. "The issue of the Insular Cases can be addressed by Congress, based on self-determination by the people of each territory."
That history prompted Gorsuch to comment in a case involving benefits denied to people who live in Puerto Rico, decided in April. He wrote that the Insular Cases were wrongly decided because they deprived residents of U.S. territories of some constitutional rights.
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