Tom Ramstack, Washington Times Reporter, Believes Justice Sotomayor Will Help Persuade U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Puerto Rico Voting Rights Case

Tom Ramstack, a reporter for the Washington Times, has written this interesting story about the lawsuit Igartua v U.S.A. This is the case on whether Puerto Rico should have voting representatives in Congress. As noted earlier, on August 4, 2011, the First Circuit had denied a rehearing by a tie vote, 3-3. Ramstack believes that the Puerto Rico government, and the individual voter-plaintiff, are certain to appeal this decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. He also explains why he believes that the U.S. Supreme Court may hear this case. Specifically, he believes that Justice Sonia Sotomayor will be very interested in this case, and that perhaps she can persuade her fellow justices to take an interest in the case. The U.S. Supreme Court in the past has always declined to hear any voting rights case involving U.S. citizens who live in a territory or commonwealth.


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  1. America has to free us PuertoRican from The coloinal
    Slavery mindset on going for over 100 yrs now.PuertoRicans have served and die in USA made wars but cannot vote for the whiteman or blackman in the WhiteHouse.FREE ME AMERICA OR KILL ME!

  2. PuertoRicans are just 2nd Class American citizens many of us have to obtain a new birthcertificate post 9/11
    America. We are not treated as true Americans like those who cross our borders and enslaves us in 1620!
    Free Me America or kill me!

  3. not to worry rgarding PR
    sotomayor will be removed from SCOTUS shortly following removal of ineligible nominating POTUS prior to 2012 general election

  4. Current regime —

    14th Amdt, Sec. 2

    Since when is ANY U.S.A. colony a STATE of the Union — Puerto Rico, American Samoa, etc. ???

    Const Amdt remedy
    Uniform definition of Elector-Voter in ALL of the U.S.A.
    P.R. and App.V.

    Difficult ONLY for the zillions of constitutional law MORONS in the U.S.A. ???

  5. Hey nbc, yer R what yer R!

    more: In P.R., the Power of Social Media

    UPR activists have used social media in their protest movement.

    Read more: http://latino.foxnews.com/slideshow/latino/2011/02/15/puerto-rico-power-social-media/#ixzz1UwxbzEAW

    and quick fix, if the powers that be really wanted a solution short of constitutional amendment(s) [and they do not!] is to assign federal post office boxes for non state citizens in states.

    This flawed patch up allows DC citizens to vote ‘in’ Maryland, Pacific peoples to vote ‘in’ Hawaii, Caribbean types ‘in’ FLorida. Surely not perfect. Surely much better than the sorry, sorry present situation.

  6. the imminent purging of the ineligible one and especially voiding his SCOTUS nominations will freeze the PR statehood question into the distant future. — regaining PR training sites, US Navy will finally be allowed to repel Chinese/Russian invasion of Monroe’s US sphere of influence as well as passify the NAFTA Trojan horse — Mexico.

  7. Donald Lake,

    I like the electoral patch-up proposal you came up with! This would definitely be a step in the right direction!

    Imagine the following headlines:

    “Florida is a toss-up, with Caribbean voters being a key factor to decide who wins!”

  8. Monday August 22nd 2011

    Strunk v NYS-BOE et al (“the world”)

    Index 11-6500

    Kings County NYS Supreme Court (Brooklyn)

    definition of natural born citizen with regards to 2008 (and 2012) POTUS candidate ballot access / eligibility

  9. also
    re: Strunk v NYS-BOE

    — includes appearance/MTD by SWP (socialist workers party) eligibility in 2008 and 2012 POTUS on NYS general election ballot

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