"this makes for an astounding contrast to puerto rico, where there is basically no covid, the whole pandemic was essentially over before we had any idea what covid 19 was (nov 2019 to feb 2020), and where there has never, despite all manner of hysterical governmental messaging, been anything like a hospital issue. they have been so empty…
"this makes for an astounding contrast to puerto rico, where there is basically no covid, the whole pandemic was essentially over before we had any idea what covid 19 was (nov 2019 to feb 2020), and where there has never, despite all manner of hysterical governmental messaging, been anything like a hospital issue. they have been so empty that several of my friends got laid off for lack of work during a “state of emergency” over a disease that “threatened to swamp the hospitals.”"
The question I have been asking (myself, really, 'cuz I don't know who else to ask) is:
Where the HELL is somebody to challenge our governor (first, Wanda and now, Pedro) on the legality or Constitutionality of their exercising "emergency" powers when there IS no emergency??? We're 20 months past the FIRST emergency declaration, and IINM PR statutes give governors 6 months, and than an extension of 6 months, to declare states of emergency (BOTH of which are FAR longer than they ought to be - which is another question: where the HELL is somebody to move the legislature to curtail those exorbitant six-month periods??)
Is there not even ONE attorney on this friggin' island who cares about this egregious overreach? Is there not even ONE legislator who cares about the unfettered power in a tyrannous chief executive?
the PR constitution was written for a fricking military outpost. back when rexford tugwelled it all up, governor was still an appointed post.
it's "governor general" in the military sense.
their license to trample rights is outlandish.
i mean, you ever read ley 75?
it's purportedly a set of code to "protect distributors." in reality, it granted monopolies in perpetuity to a small clique of boriqua aristocrats who got fat and rich off it.
Forgive the systemic ignorance in this comment, but then why doesn’t someone elevate it to a US federal court of appeals when they lose here? It’s not like the courts here are the final arbiter. Push the damn thing all the way to SCOTUS if necessary.
As to your other question, I haven’t read Ley 75 because I can’t find anything in English and I’m not bilingual, and trying to find a competent translation website or app is impossible.
That would also probably explain why I didn’t know that they’ve been losing in court, because I can’t watch the news here, for the same reason.
"this makes for an astounding contrast to puerto rico, where there is basically no covid, the whole pandemic was essentially over before we had any idea what covid 19 was (nov 2019 to feb 2020), and where there has never, despite all manner of hysterical governmental messaging, been anything like a hospital issue. they have been so empty that several of my friends got laid off for lack of work during a “state of emergency” over a disease that “threatened to swamp the hospitals.”"
The question I have been asking (myself, really, 'cuz I don't know who else to ask) is:
Where the HELL is somebody to challenge our governor (first, Wanda and now, Pedro) on the legality or Constitutionality of their exercising "emergency" powers when there IS no emergency??? We're 20 months past the FIRST emergency declaration, and IINM PR statutes give governors 6 months, and than an extension of 6 months, to declare states of emergency (BOTH of which are FAR longer than they ought to be - which is another question: where the HELL is somebody to move the legislature to curtail those exorbitant six-month periods??)
Is there not even ONE attorney on this friggin' island who cares about this egregious overreach? Is there not even ONE legislator who cares about the unfettered power in a tyrannous chief executive?
Same question here Andrew. Been asking the question for a long time.
they have.
they keep losing in court.
the PR constitution was written for a fricking military outpost. back when rexford tugwelled it all up, governor was still an appointed post.
it's "governor general" in the military sense.
their license to trample rights is outlandish.
i mean, you ever read ley 75?
it's purportedly a set of code to "protect distributors." in reality, it granted monopolies in perpetuity to a small clique of boriqua aristocrats who got fat and rich off it.
law on this island is a sad joke.
Forgive the systemic ignorance in this comment, but then why doesn’t someone elevate it to a US federal court of appeals when they lose here? It’s not like the courts here are the final arbiter. Push the damn thing all the way to SCOTUS if necessary.
As to your other question, I haven’t read Ley 75 because I can’t find anything in English and I’m not bilingual, and trying to find a competent translation website or app is impossible.
That would also probably explain why I didn’t know that they’ve been losing in court, because I can’t watch the news here, for the same reason.
there was a case in federal court. it was dismissed.
*then*