In a gross oversimplification and exercise in obfuscation, today a group of American Professors -only one of whom has written serious articles on Puerto Rico- made public a well-drafted but intellectually defective letter to favor Statehood, where conclusions are reached but no explanations given. 

(As affirming what is or is not constitutional without giving a legal reasoning on how that conclusion was reached.) At the last moment, they managed to add as signatories a few Puerto Rican Law professors none of whom is known for having expertise in Constitutional or International Law.

 

In an exercise of intellectual honesty a group of Puerto Rican professors, experts in Constitutional Law from Law Schools in Puerto Rico: the University of Puerto Rico School of Law, Inter-American University School of Law, and the Pontifical Catholic University School of Law, with an impressive body of writings and publications on Puerto Rico, it's status and position within American Empire, US Federal and Constitutional Law and International Law, have published a well-reasoned rebuttal to that patronizing letter. To read it, and the letter they sent to Congress, please click on the headline above.

 

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Luis Ponce

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Luis is SEIU Local 105’s Strategic Campaign and Research Director and a 2016 Latino Leadership Institute Fellow. A Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service graduate, he also holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Puerto Rico. His work and ex