A esos efectos, la Ley de Relaciones Federales – que sustituyó a la ley Foraker que excluía el derecho a juicio por jurado en Puerto Rico – estableció la expresión congresional de la extensión de la doctrina de incorporación selectiva al territorio boricua: The rights, privileges, and inmunities of citizens of the United States shall be respected in Puerto Rico to the same extent as though Puerto Rico were a State of… [read post]

Accordingly, Puerto Rico remains, in the words of Justice White, “foreign in a domestic sense,” and as Ohio Senator Joseph Foraker stated in 1900, Congress retains the “right to legislate with respect to [Puerto Rico] as [it] may see fit. [read post]