Members of Congress to Call on DOJ to Denounce Insular Cases

On Wednesday, April 17, 2024, at 12:15 p.m., Members of Congress, civil rights groups, and other allies will hold a press conference to discuss the need for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to disavow and cease its reliance on the Insular Cases, a series of egregiously racist U.S. Supreme Court decisions that broke from prior precedent to justify the second-class treatment of the U.S. territories. The Insular Cases stand alongside infamous decisions such as Dred Scott v. Sandford, Plessy v. Ferguson, and Korematsu v. United States, yet unlike those decisions, they continue to be defended by DOJ.