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Sotomayor Helps Puerto Rico Argue Its Bankruptcy Case [Worst Ever Supreme Court Appointment!]
YahoNews ^ | March 23, 2016 | Noah Feldman

Posted on 03/23/2016 6:42:06 PM PDT by Steelfish

Sotomayor Helps Puerto Rico Argue Its Bankruptcy Case Noah Feldman

Before Tuesday, I’d have said that Puerto Rico had no chance to win its legal fight to let its municipalities and utilities declare bankruptcy. That's how the island hopes to resolve its overwhelming debt problems, but the federal bankruptcy code says that it can't.

That's what the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit held last summer, unanimously. The statute seemed so clear that even Judge Juan Torruella, the appellate court’s only Puerto Rican member, concurred in an outraged separate opinion criticizing the federal law.

Then Sonia Sotomayor stepped in. Oral arguments before the Supreme Court rarely change the outcome of a case, yet Tuesday's session may turn out to be the exception. In a fascinating and unusual argument, Justice Sotomayor, who is herself of Puerto Rican descent, spoke by my count an astonishing 45 times. Sotomayor left no doubt that she was speaking as an advocate.

The interpretation of the law she favored would make the system fairer to Puerto Rico, allowing the commonwealth to create its own emergency bankruptcy measures outside federal law. But it depends on a highly doubtful reading of the statute, one that stretches credulity when read into the text. Ideally, Congress will hear what happened at the oral argument and pass one of the reform proposals it’s currently considering that would spare the court from having to decide the case.

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: lawsuit; puertorico; scotus; sotomayor; supremecourt
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1 posted on 03/23/2016 6:42:06 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

La Raza syndrome.


2 posted on 03/23/2016 6:44:36 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: Steelfish

the wise latina speaks.


3 posted on 03/23/2016 6:44:40 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Steelfish

The law doesn’t matter to a “wise latino”.


4 posted on 03/23/2016 6:45:37 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Steelfish

Maybe someone should explain to her the nature of her job. She seems unclear on the concept.


5 posted on 03/23/2016 6:47:14 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (I don't know what Claire Wolfe is thinking, but I know what I'm thinking.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

She knows the nature of her job: To keep Anglos paying the bills for Latinos.

Give PR back to Spain...


6 posted on 03/23/2016 6:52:16 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Steelfish

Well of course liberal Sonia will go with her feelings instead of federal law and make an effort to to bring the rest of the libs with her.


7 posted on 03/23/2016 6:53:33 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: ealgeone

The wide Latina continues to hold the bench in place.


8 posted on 03/23/2016 6:54:43 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: kearnyirish2

I an so sick and damn tired of the favoritism shown minorities in this country, all of which the taxpayers have to pay for.


9 posted on 03/23/2016 6:56:01 PM PDT by 4Runner
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To: Steelfish

Impeach


10 posted on 03/23/2016 6:56:13 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Steelfish; Lurking Libertarian; Perdogg; JDW11235; Clairity; Spacetrucker; Art in Idaho; GregNH; ...

FReepmail me to subscribe to or unsubscribe from the SCOTUS ping list.

11 posted on 03/23/2016 6:56:33 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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She wrote several 2nd Circuit opinions that were unanimously overturned by the Supreme Court. The wise latina doesn’t know the law from third base.


12 posted on 03/23/2016 6:56:41 PM PDT by henkster
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To: 4Runner

It will end in a few years when there are no more Anglo taxpayers to pay for it; we’ll be around for a while, but more and more of the dwindling number of whites are jumping on the gravy train using all of the same tricks.


13 posted on 03/23/2016 6:57:53 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Steelfish
Not sure when we ceased being a nation of laws, but the unpunished IRS abuses, CJ Robert's personal rewrite of Obamacare, Obama's fiat illegal-alien amnesty, and Hillary's apparent immunity from prosecution - all indicate the Rubicon has long faded from the rear-view mirror.

Spinning up a wild interpretation of the rules governing PR is just the latest addition to the body count.

14 posted on 03/23/2016 7:02:10 PM PDT by Dagnabitt (Islamic Immigration is Treason.)
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To: Steelfish

Today Puerto Rico. Tomorrow Detroit. Next Week Chicago. Coming soon to more democrat led cities, states, and provinces in the future.

There is almost no chance that politicians will not bail out these reliable voters. Too bad there is nobody to bail us out when the house of cards finally collapses.


15 posted on 03/23/2016 7:02:39 PM PDT by volunbeer (ABH for President! - Anybody but Hillary)
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To: jazusamo

I don’t think she sees the big picture. Granting PR something like this is going to be a big precedent regarding State’s rights over the feds. Like the supremacy clause, for example.


16 posted on 03/23/2016 7:03:46 PM PDT by disndat
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To: Steelfish

Of course, she’ll recuse herself and apologize for her behavior.

Not.


17 posted on 03/23/2016 7:07:30 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: ClearCase_guy

You got it.


18 posted on 03/23/2016 7:07:56 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: Steelfish

Puerto Rico has been running a government Ponzi Scheme for years.

Democrat money laundering.


19 posted on 03/23/2016 7:08:02 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Steelfish
If there is no protection for the bond hold then the entire U.S. economic system is in peril.
20 posted on 03/23/2016 7:13:02 PM PDT by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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