HAGÃ TÃA (The Guam Daily Post) â A series of U.S. Supreme Court decisions that laid the groundwork for territorial-federal relations continues to be criticized as a racist relic of Americaâs history.
On Wednesday, Guam Vice Speaker Tina Muna-Barnes held a public hearing on Resolution 56-36, a bipartisan measure she authored that supports a U.S. congressional effort to publicly reject the decisions known as the Insular Cases.
U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva, a Democrat from Arizona who introduced the House resolution, testified in a prerecorded video that he views the cases as âracist, and contrary to the U.S. Constitution,â and argued they established an unequal legal and political dynamic between the United States and its territories.