“I find it ironic that the Obama administration nominated a Puerto Rican judge who identifies with Puerto Rico, a place that is legally subject to discriminatory law,’’ he said. “Judge Sotomayor represents a citizenry that is partially excluded from the political process.’’ Full Story »
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Bryan Bender travels to Puerto Rico to cover not only the reaction of the people when Sonia Sotomayor is sworn in as a US Supreme Court justice, but he reports on why this is relevant to current issue with the status of Puerto Rico with the US, which is not much spoken about in the news, perhaps muffled by the war. Bender shows the context and significance of this: the Island's political status not yet resolved after 100 years.
The island remains fiercely patriotic, sending a disproportionately high number of men and women to serve in the US armed forces, including thousands who have died in wars stretching from World War I to Iraq and Afghanistan. But those soldiers cannot vote for their commander-in-chief,
