The reconciliation bill fails to stop the federal government’s unconstitutional cruelty toward disenfranchised citizens.
All this might lead you to think that by the time the Supreme Court takes up oral argument in, or certainly by the time it rules sometime next year, that Biden and congressional Democrats may have already extended SSI benefits to Puerto Rico. Unfortunately, that seems like wishful thinking.
So far, the reconciliation package pending before Congress includes literally nothing to fix SSI or other federal benefits disparities for citizens in the territories. And that wasAdvertisementThis state of affairs speaks to a question that the Supreme Court should take seriously when it hears oral argument inWhile the lower courts held that Congress’s denial of SSI benefits to residents of U.S.
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