“These islands and their likely ungovernable and unassimilable ‘alien races’ belonged to the United States, the court opined, but were not a part of it. Puerto Ricans, for example, the justices explained nonsensically, were ‘foreign to the United States in a domestic sense.’ Which is exactly as dumb as it sounds.”

“These islands and their likely ungovernable and unassimilable ‘alien races’ belonged to the United States, the court opined, but were not a part of it. Puerto Ricans, for example, the justices explained nonsensically, were ‘foreign to the United States in a domestic sense.’ Which is exactly as dumb as it sounds.”

— Rachel Maddow