The Supreme Court grappled Wednesday with whether a government board created by Congress to oversee Puerto Rico’s debt has the same protections from certain lawsuits that states have.
And some justices at the oral arguments sounded hesitant about whether the Supreme Court should even decide that in this case, one of several in recent years about legal clashes over the financially troubled territory.
This latest case stems from a civil lawsuit from an investigative news outlet that seeks documents held by the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, which Congress created in response to Puerto Rico’s debt crisis in 2016.
