Puerto Rico's supreme court agreed on Monday to hear a lawsuit filed by the...
SAN JUAN - Puerto Rico’s supreme court agreed on Monday to hear a lawsuit filed by the bankrupt U.S. territory’s Senate president seeking to remove newly installed Governor Pedro Pierluisi from office on constitutional grounds.
Pierluisi, 60, was hand-picked by his predecessor, Governor Ricardo Rossello, as secretary of state, making him first in line for governor when Rossello resigned on Friday. “That has still not happened yet because the Senate of Puerto Rico has not finalized its constitutional responsibility for advice and consent for such an appointment,” it added.
He said he was properly sworn in as governor under Puerto Rico’s constitution and a 2005 law that Schatz’s lawsuit claims is unconstitutional. His installment as governor capped a week of political chaos after Rossello said he would resign over offensive chat messages that drew around a third of the island’s 3.2 million people to the streets in protest.
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