U.S. Senator Brian Schatz yesterday sponsored the Senate bill to require the president of the United States to propose a plan to make Puerto Rico… Read More »Hawaii Senator Facing Election Sponsors Puerto Rico Statehood Vote Legislation
A forthcoming article by Willie Santana in the Spring 2014 issue of the Tennessee Journal of Law & Policy examines Puerto Rico’s relationship with the… Read More »Tennessee Law Journal Analyzes Puerto Rico’s Territorial Status
Federal legislation introduced by Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) to advance self determination for Puerto Rico (S. 2020) gained a new cosponsor yesterday: Sen. Brian Schatz… Read More »Hawaii Senator Endorses Self Determination Legislation
Puerto Rico’s territorial government receives less money in competitive Federal grants than the governments of any of the States although the territory is home to… Read More »More People than 20 States But Less in Competitive Federal Grants than All 50
The language question is one that has often arisen in the Puerto Rico statehood debate. Puerto Rico now has two official languages: English and Spanish.… Read More »Puerto Rico, Statehood and Court Interpreters
“American rule has not yet made our new colonies as perfect as some people would have us believe,” begins an article in the Sacred Heart… Read More »A Page from History: Imperfect Colony in 1903
At the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Oversight Hearing on Wednesday, June 11, before the House Committee on the Judiciary, Rep. Pierluisi asked FBI Director James… Read More »Pierluisi Shares Puerto Rico’s Narrative of Violence
Puerto Rico’s statehood party went to court today to force the insular Elections Commission to act on the Federal authorization for a plebiscite on the… Read More »Statehood Party Sues to Get Commonwealth Commission to Act on U.S. Plebiscite Law
By Howard Hills* In 1984, President Reagan adopted two-tier balloting to enable the electorate in U.S. administered United Nations trust territories to decide on the… Read More »Puerto Rico’s 2012 status vote: the validity of two-tiered voting and proposed next steps
