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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?A federal appeals court ruled Friday that people from the South Pacific islands of American Samoa do not have a right to U.S. citizenship simply because they were born in the U.S. territory.The ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Distric
stanley cup t of Columbia Circuit preserves federal laws that make those born in American Samoa U.S. nationals, but not citizens like people born in Puerto Rico and other territories.Writing for a three-judge panel, Judge Janice Rogers Brown said the Constitution 14th Amendment does not automatically extend birthright citizenship to the nation unincorporated political territories.Brown also said the court was reluctant to impose citizenship over the object
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stanley cup entatives.The lawsuit filed by a small group of American Samoans did not have the support of the islands ; government officials. The government of American Samoa has argued that automatic U.S. citizenship could undermine local traditions and practices, including certain rules that restrict land ownership only to those of Samoan ancestry.People born in American Samoa must leave the territory and live in a U.S. state for at least three months to apply for naturalization. Many complain that the inconvenience and expense of the process prevents them from pursuing citizenship.The lawsuit lead plaintiff, Leneuoti Tuaua, said he wanted to b Qhor Slide Show: Somalia s Battle Scars
WASHINGTON AP 鈥?Joe Biden has won Georgia and its 16 electoral votes, an extraordinary victory for Democrats who pushed to expand
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adidas campus map through the Sun Belt.The win by Biden pads his Electoral College margin of victory over President Donald Trump. Biden was declared the winner of the presidential election on Nov. 7 after flipping Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin to the Democrats ; column.Biden now has 306 electoral votes to Trump 232.Graphic by PBS NewsHour based on AP dataTrump won Georgia by 5 percentage points in 2016 over Democrat Hillary Clinton.In 2020, Democrats had focused heavily on the state, seeing it in play two years after Democrat Stacey Abrams narrowly lost the governor race. Both of Georgia Senate seats were on the ballot this year, further boosting the state political profile as well as spending by outside groups seeking to influence voters. Those two races are headed to a January runoff.Georgia hadn ;t voted for a Democratic president
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