The justices seemed divided on the issue as they questioned Deputy Solicitor General Curtis Gannon while he argued on behalf of the Dept. of Justice in favor of excluding Puerto Rican residents from Supplemental Security Income benefits.
to establish “a rational basis for the exclusion of Puerto Rico residents from SSI coverage.”
Liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who is of Puerto Rican descent, pushed back, saying that Puerto Ricans"pay as much taxes, other combined taxes, as other states in the union."and help fund public programs such as Medicare and Social Security, contributing more than $4 billion annually in federal taxes to the United States.
Sotomayor added that the SSI program is fully funded by the federal government, meaning that states don't incur any costs when making these benefits available to their residents.
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