So in short, what kind of effects are we looking at if the broad outcome of the Insular Cases is reversed, and full constitutional rights immediately follow American control of territory?
So in short, what kind of effects are we looking at if the broad outcome of the Insular Cases is reversed, and full constitutional rights immediately follow American control of territory?
Wouldn't it just mean those places get treated as normal territories, as in expected to eventually petition to become states?
The racism at the time wouldn't allow it, but maybe the justices console themselves with that eventuality being in the far distant future. And that Congress can keep rejecting them indefinitely until then.