Politics of the United States Virgin Islands takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic dependency, whereby the governor is the head of the territory's government, and of a multi-party system.
Such delegates can speak on the U.S. House floor, introduce bills and offer amendments but cannot vote during business as the Committee of the Whole or on final passage of legislation.
A federal lawsuit was filed in 2011 in the District Court of the Virgin Islands and was subsequently appealed to the Washington, D.C., Circuit Court of Appeals,[3] to provide Virgin Islanders with the fundamental right to be represented in Congress and vote for U.S.
[2] The Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands of 1954[5] is the current Organic Act defining the government of the United States Virgin Islands, which were acquired by the United States through the Treaty of the Danish West Indies of 1916.
It replaced the Organic Act of the Virgin Islands of 1936[6] and earlier temporary provisions.
[10][11] Further amendments in 1984 removed the right to indictment for certain crimes and the jurisdiction of the admiralty courts.
Judges on the District Court are appointed by the president for ten year terms, subject to Senate confirmation.