The Most Racist Supreme Court Decisions You've Probably Never Heard Of

Puerto Rico’s U.S. citizens don’t enjoy the full protections of the Constitution, thanks to a set of century-old Supreme Court decisions called the “Insular Cases.” In a case dealing with the island’s financial oversight board, the ACLU has asked the court to overrule those decisions, which relied on openly racist assumptions to legalize the island’s second-class status. Adriel Cepeda Derieux, a staff attorney with the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project, explains why it’s time for the court to renounce the Insular Cases.