Thanks to a tip from a reader, today we extend our feelings of sympathy to the Puerto Rican people.

We recently discovered that on Monday the U.S. Supreme Court quietly decided not to hear a case involving whether or not Puerto Rican residents should be able to vote in U.S. presidential elections. While District residents were granted that right in 1961 with the endorsement of the Twenty-third Amendment to the Constitution, we can still sympathize with being stuck in vaguely defined legal limbo and not enjoying the full range of rights granted to all other U.S. citizens.

It could be worse, though, Puerto Rico — you could have a bunch of voting rights naysayers claiming that you shouldn’t have any rights at all because Marion Barry keeps getting elected.