[Supreme Court News\ U.S. Virgin Islands]
Congresswoman Stacey E. Plaskett: “Our territorial status is eerily similar to the status of the original 13 colonies to the British government. Today, the unequal footing of the territories in voting power, proximity to the mainland, funding formulas and resources of our country continue to keep the Virgin Islands from becoming all that we can be much as it kept colonial America from realizing its full potential.”
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