ACLU PR @ Puerto Rico Bar Association Convention 2016
Keynote speaker Federal Appeals Court Judge Juan Torruella receives a historic standing ovation from a full assembly of a PR Bar Association that has had long battles with federal courts.
His message of passive resistance and economic boycotts hit home. Protest is not only not criminal, but it is a moral obligation. Spoke of the civil rights indignity that is the imposition of a federal fiscal control board that makes PR's upcoming elections superfluous and irrelevant. And, likened historic supreme court race cases to Puerto Rico's reality. Joining together to defend rights in Puerto Rico through passive resistance and economic boycott is a just cause. How can PR remain docile before the indignity of an impending undemocratic fiscal control board? And, President Obama "Free Oscar Lopez".
La jueza asociada del Tribunal Supremo de EEUU, Sonia Sotomayor, en su opinión disidente, critíca fuertemente la reciente opinión en el caso Jones v. Mississippi (22 de abril de 2021); expresando que la 8va Enmienda a la Constitución de EEUU sobre trato cruel e inusitado requiere que una persona joven que es sentenciada a una sentencia de encarcelamiento perpetuo debe tener por lo menos alguna esperanza que pasará algunos de sus años de vida fuera de los muros de las prisiones.
Lean la opinión en:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/18-1259_8njq.pdf
