Supreme Court Told Puerto Rico Control Board Can’t Refuse to Make Documents Public

Supreme Court Told Puerto Rico Control Board Can’t Refuse to Make Documents Public
Associate Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Neil Gorsuch in the East Conference Room of the Supreme Court on June 1, 2017. Alex Wong/Getty Images
Matthew Vadum
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Whether Puerto Rico enjoys the same immunity from lawsuits that U.S. states have was considered by the Supreme Court on Jan. 11 in a battle over media access to internal documents of a governmental body.

The hearing came after a recent push by congressional Democrats for a statehood referendum in Puerto Rico failed in the last Congress. In December 2022, the U.S. House of Representatives approved the proposed Puerto Rico Status Act but it died because the Senate hadn’t yet considered it when the old Congress wrapped up.