Biden Urged to Help Fight Cases Treating Territories as Inferior

Civil rights and Latino groups are calling on the Biden administration to push the Supreme Court to overturn a series of oft-criticized cases they say make Puerto Ricans and others from US territories second-class citizens.

Dating to 1901, the so-called Insular Cases say the Constitution doesn’t apply in full force to “unincorporated territories” like American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands.

Critics say the time has come to overrule the rulings—and they want the administration to help.

“This year marks a century since the last of the Insular Cases was decided,” said Neil ...