Committee of Correspondence for Puerto Rico Self-Determination

In a July 9, 2008, commentary in the “Caribbean Business” magazine published in Puerto Rico, former governor Hernandez Colon argued that federal territorial law defining the rights of U.S. citizens in the Puerto Rico is in good order. He went so far as to state that in “practical terms” the Insular Cases and […]

The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands has the most advanced form of “autonomy” ever conferred by Congress in a U.S. territory. Yet, in 2008 Congress approved long over due reform of federal territorial policy in the CNMI that essentially took back some of the core elements of “autonomy” the Commonwealth of the […]

The decision of our nation’s highest court to mandate greater procedural and substantive rights for the GITMO detainees is not the subject of this analysis.   That is an issue involving judicial review of the statutory policy adopted by Congress to regulate the implementation of the powers of the President as Commander-In-Chief in the war on […]