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...the structure and style of the Declaration follows a form familiar to most modern lawyers: a complaint initiating a lawsuit....

... No other states have a specific law establishing birthright citizenship there ....

... $58M worth of fraudulent aircraft parts ....

... 13,500 safety incidents from 2016 to 2017 at Job Corps centers, nearly half of them drug-related episodes or assaults ....

... Multiple Chinese nationals have been indicted ....

... This marks the first such action by Interior in over 30 years ....

... “friend of the court” brief supporting the plaintiffs in National Association of Diversity Officers v. Trump ....

... to obtain tuition assistance payments from the VA for ghost students ....

... The American Flag was raised for the first time above the islands of American Samoa on April 17, 1900 ....

... Under art. 1, § 8 of the Constitution, Congress has sole authority to control tariffs ....

... he had earned millions of dollars from insider trades involving shares in a company that merged with Trump Media & Technology Group Corp ....

“NIH’s proposed drastic reduction of our facilities and administrative rate would result in the elimination of approximately $16.5M in funding that the University of Hawaiʻi uses...."

... Trump speech to joint session of Congress, March 4, 2025, 4pm HST ....

... An anthropologist testified at the copyright infringement trial about the similarities between "Moana" and "Bucky" that aren't found in traditional Polynesian stories ....

"Since taking office on January 20, the new federal leadership has released a series of EOs and directives that could significantly impact the 10-campus system."

... The bureau was started in 2010 during the Obama administration ....

... the Trump administration is reintroducing a 10% tariff on all imports from China ....

"... guidance to help businesses, nonprofits, and other organizations ...."

"... we will continue to fight every single step of the way until President Trump is permanently prevented from trampling on the Fourteenth Amendment ...."

... The lawsuit argues that President Trump has violated the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution, which ensures that executive appointments are subject to congressional oversight and Senate confirmation ....  

... coalition of 22 attorneys general suing to stop the implementation of a new Trump administration policy that orders the withholding of trillions of dollars in funding ....

... addressing state and local involvement in federal immigration enforcement ....

“The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states in its first words that all persons born in the United States are citizens of this nation."

"... America's decline is over ...."

... DOT’s lawsuit alleges that Southwest’s chronic flight delays were an illegal unrealistic scheduling practice ....

... Interior Secretary can approve American Samoa’s constitutional amendments now and in the future without unnecessary steps in Washington, D.C., that other territories do not have ....

“...Since 2009, Communist Chinese passport holders have been permitted to sidestep the U.S.. visa requirements to enter the northern Mariana islands through categorical parole....”

... 2nd alleged assassin this year with Hawaii connections ....

... An undercover journalist shows how easy it is to get a ticket to Hawaii ....

... Ryan Wesley Routh, 58 had a long criminal record from North Carolina before relocating to Kaaawa.  In a social media post, he claims to have voted for Trump in 2016 ....

... but no immunity for unofficial acts ....

"...call for Congressional and DOJ rejection of any further attempts like the Fitisemanu case in 2022 for courts to change the political status of American Samoa under the 1900-1904 Deeds of Cession, unless initiated and approved by our people through local self-determination....”

... American Samoa Citizenship Question Not So Simple ....

... Biden recently signed the Compact of Free Association Amendments Act of 2024, which extended federal benefits to COFA citizens who legally reside in the United States ....

... to allow for American Samoa to enact constitutional changes as approved by the people without unnecessary additional procedures in Washington ....

... As Chief of the BMV, Leon Guerrero knowingly permitted 'Ivan' to submit fraudulent immigration documents, on at least 50 occasions between January 2020 and December 2022 ....

Plymouth Colony Governor William Bradford called this system "communism", two hundred ninety six years before the Russian revolution....

... A recount of Hawaii’s votes ultimately reversed the outcome of the state election ....

... More than half of these populations now reside in the continental United States and an estimated 43% are U.S. citizens ....

... $537 million in funding for the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs (OIA) ....

... Grant-Matching Requirement to be waived for American Samoa, the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, Guam and U.S. Virgin Islands ....

... be sure to read what his ex-wife had to say ....

... the American Samoan Legislature recently passed a unanimous resolution opposing citizenship without their consent ....

... the United States was less free in 2020 than it was in 2019 ....

... the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Director Martha Williams said the administration is not considering an expansion to PRIMNM ....

... Allowing voters living in U.S. territories to vote absentee in states they used to live in would give them outsized voting rights compared to fellow residents, a federal judge found....

... our right to preserve our fa’a Samoa ....

... Provisions included in the COMPETES Act, a major measure to strengthen U.S. economic competitiveness, domestic capacity and supply chains ....

... We know that authoritarians rarely give up, and we know they aren’t doing their preparation for the next coup d’état in hiding ....

... DC’s Civil Lawsuit is the First Filed by a Government Entity Against Proud Boys and Oath Keepers; Seeks Damages Caused by Violent & Deadly Attack ....