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Damon Root

Bad Bunny and the SCOTUS Precedent That Denies Constitutional Rights to Puerto Ricans

The Super Bowl halftime show does not normally offer much in the way of educational value. But Sunday's performance by the musician Bad Bunny did help teach a valuable civics lesson to certain uninformed conservative pundits.

Consider the right-wing commentator Tomi Lahren. She was apparently unaware of the fact that people born in Puerto Rico—such as Bad Bunny—are U.S. citizens. "He is not an American artist," Lahren falsely asserted before being corrected by her interlocutor, who informed Lahren that Puerto Rico "is part of America, dear."

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