1976: Sotomayor favored Puerto Rican independence, referred to "North American Congress" and "mainland Congress"

A history professor took a look at Sonia Sotomayor's 1976 Princeton University senior thesis and says it would get an A minus or thereabout. Oh, and also:

First, I'm curious as to when Sotomayor ceased being a Puerto Rican nationalist who favors independence -- as she says she does in the preface. (The position, as she points out in the thesis, had received 0.6 percent in a 1967 referendum, the most recent such vote before she wrote the thesis.) I don't know that I've seen it reported anywhere that she favored Puerto Rican independence, which has always been very much a fringe position....

Second, her unwillingness to call the Congress the U.S. Congress is bizarre -- in the thesis, it's always referred to as either the 'North American Congress' or the 'mainland Congress.' I guess by the language of her thesis, it should be said that she's seeking an appointment to the North American Supreme Court, subject to advice and consent of the North American Senate. This kind of rhetoric was very trendy, and not uncommon, among the Latin Americanist fringe of the academy.

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Personally, I don't care what happens to Puerto Rico. But in fact it would probably be better for the US if they were independent -- then one would hope that Puerto Ricans would not be able to enter the US without a visa.

the political question of this island puerto rico has been around for 110 years each time the US ask the monkeys of puerto rico "do you want your political indepenent? the monkeys say NO! The reason why is the money after all most monkeys in this island have drug money coming into its banks and welfare dollars and in fact 60 percent of all males get about $20,900.00 per year most of the male monkeys are under 50 years old. In fact go to this pig shit place and see what the monkeys think of Americans. LET PUERTO RICO AND ITS PEOPLE GO! This "bitch sotomayor", was a member of the Red Party inside puerto rico but many of her rec's disappeard after she got the free education thing, "and yes dick weeds it was a free education paid by our monkey government".