Fifth Amendment

In 2022, the Supreme Court addressed whether Congress's exclusion of Puerto Rico residents from the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program violated the Fifth Amendment. In an 8-1 decision in United States v. Vaello Madero, the Court held that it did not. The majority opinion reasoned that…

Puerto Rico v. Sanchez Valle was a U.S. Supreme Court case that addressed whether Puerto Rico and the federal government are separate sovereigns under the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment. The case arose after two individuals were prosecuted by federal and Puerto Rican authorities for…

In Miranda v. Arizona, the U.S. Supreme Court held that statements obtained during a police interrogation are inadmissible at trial unless the suspect first receives procedural warnings. This became known as the “Miranda warnings.” The Court based its ruling on the Fifth Amendment’s protection…