Barack Obama firma nueva ley donde prohíbe que residentes de Puerto Rico viajen a Estados Unidos hasta tanto salgan de su crisis económica
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WASHINGTON — Faced with the prospect of definitively resolving the status of Puerto Rico, the Supreme Court on Wednesday explored ways in which to render a narrow decision. But a lawyer for the Obama administration was adamant that the court’s decision should be based on the fundamental ground that the commonwealth is a territory of the United States without independent sovereignty.
The case concerned the Constitution’s double jeopardy clause, which forbids subsequent prosecutions for the same crimes. The Supreme Court has said that the federal government and the states are independent sovereigns, meaning that the same conduct can be prosecuted separately in state and federal courts.
The question in Wednesday’s case, Puerto Rico v. Sánchez Valle, No. 15-108, was whether Puerto Rico was also a separate sovereign and therefore able to pursue a subsequent prosecution for the same crime after a federal conviction. Whether Puerto Rico is a separate sovereign is a deeply contested matter of politics and pride.
The case involves Luis M. Sánchez Valle and Gómez Vázquez, who were prosecuted on gun charges in local and federal courts in Puerto Rico. They pleaded guilty to the federal charges and asserted that they could not be prosecuted for the same crimes in local courts under the Constitution’s double jeopardy clause.
Puerto Rico’s Supreme Court agreed. “Puerto Rico’s authority to prosecute individuals is derived from its delegation by United States Congress and not by virtue of its own sovereignty,” the court’s majority said.
Justice Stephen G. Breyer urged the court to limit its decision to the context of double jeopardy
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