United States HRES 641: Acknowledging that the decisions rendered by the United States Supreme Court in the so-called Insular Cases rest on the same racist and ethnocentric assumptions leading to Plessy v. Ferguson's infamous "separate but equal" doctrine, that the legal doctrine emanating from the Insular Cases has no place in United States Constitutional law, and that the Insular Cases must be rejected in their entirety.

Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties. (as of 2019-10-28)

State: United States · Session: 116 · Bill: HRES 641

Subjects: Constitution and constitutional amendments, Due process and equal protection, Racial and ethnic relations, U.S. territories and protectorates

Sponsors: Raul M. Grijalva, Adriano Espaillat, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, BARBARA LEE, BETTY MCCOLLUM, BOBBY L. RUSH, Ben Ray Lujan, Bonnie Watson Coleman, DANNY K. DAVIS, Darren Soto, Debra A. Haaland, ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON, Frederica S. Wilson, GRACE F. NAPOLITANO, Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Grace Meng, Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan, Gwen Moore, Ilhan Omar, JANICE D. SCHAKOWSKY, Jared Huffman, Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon, Jesus G. Garcia, Joaquin Castro, Juan Vargas

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