Does Congress have the Power to Defy the Fourteenth Amendment’s Guarantee that All Persons born on U.S. Soil and subject to U.S. Jurisdiction are Citizens of the United States by Birth?
This is the Question raised by a Federal Lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, Fitisemanu v. United States, on behalf of a Group of Passport-Holding, Tax-Paying Americans denied Recognition as U.S. Citizens and the Right to Vote simply because they were Born in American Samoa, a U.S. Territory since 1900.
Fitisemanu v. United States makes the Case that Congress cannot Redefine the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to Deny Citizenship to Persons born on U.S. Soil, whether Born in a State, a Territory, or the District of Columbia.
John Fitisemanu is a proud Passport-holding, Tax-Paying American. But because he was Born in American Samoa, he is Denied the Right to Vote in Utah based on a Discriminatory Federal Law that purports to Label him as a "National, but not a Citizen, of the United States."
Fitisemanu, and others Born in American Samoa, are expressly Labeled as Second-Class Americans.
Federal Policy requires that his U.S. Passport include a Disclaimer in all Capital Letters that “THE BEARER IS A UNITED STATES NATIONAL AND NOT A UNITED STATES CITIZEN.”
Fitisemanu and other Utah Residents Born in American Samoa, along with the Southern Utah Pacific Islander Coalition, are now Defending their Right to Citizenship in Court.
Plaintiffs are represented by Equally American, a Non-Profit that Advocates for Equality and Civil Rights in U.S. Territories, Attorneys at Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher LLP, and Charles V. Ala’ilima, a prominent American Samoan Attorney.
CLICK HERE to read Fitisemanu v. United States Lawsuit.
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