Justices ruled 8-1 on Thursday, the majority arguing Congress had not violated the Constitution by excluding residents of the U.S. territory from Supplemental Security Income, monthly payments for blind, disabled, or low-income elderly people.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who was born in New York and is of Puerto Rican descent, was the lone dissenter in the ruling. She disputed the majority's standpoint regarding taxes and argued SSI beneficiaries typically have low incomes and usually pay little to no federal income tax.
Ericpr40 Discrimination to 3.2 millions of Americans citizens. Time to give statehood to Puerto Rico.
The vote was 8-1 because they are exempt from most US taxes. But illegal immigrants enter the country & settle in with a host of govt benefits to support them.
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