Igartua v. Trump

Although I fully join my dissenting colleagues’ elegant and on point statements, I write separately because their expressions regarding the majority’s denial of en banc review of the panel decision fall substantially short of what I consider to be an unwarranted and unjustifiable action that clearly runs contrary to the law.

At the heart of this controversy lies the total national disenfranchisement2 and *26lack of national political clout of the community of 3.5 million United States citizens who reside in Puerto Rico, a condition which has lasted for the 119 years of U.S. sovereignty over the…