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Try to make sense of this. Try! 
It's not possible...
It is surreal but clarifying. This is how colonialism works.
The fiscal "oversight" board has by default absolute powers. How so? Because it is for some purposes "sovereign" 
as part of Puerto Rico. But c'mon now...We all know that Puerto Rico is not sovereign. So the board is in reality accountable to the US Congress alone. (
below)
Thus, Puerto Ricans are punished to pay a debt obligation that at the same time they can't audit. Puerto Rico can't ask the USA for an accounting because of "sovereign immunity" but at the same time every aspect of the budget (all facets of living, in the end) is subject to plunder. Your esteemed jurists allow this absurdist legal fiction in perpetuity. 
Btw the governor elected by the 32% was previously the lawyer for the fiscal board, just to complete the inferno.
Notable that Thomas would not join the rest of the Court because he's such a corrupt absolutist that he superseded the free speech cause to the practical purpose Congress has advancing the larger cause of empire, which is just too rich
Placemaking @aljavieera@zirk.usPuerto Rico is arbitrarily sovereign when it is politically convenient for the USA, obviously.
Somehow there has got to be a way (someone please look into this!) for US-based journalists to FOIA documents from the Puerto Rico dictatorship. C'mon! Aim for that Pulitzer guys!!
In Puerto Rico the "fiscal board" slashes millions from education, closes schools, pensions and so on and so forth.
So, journalists naturally want documents about these consequential decisions.
Do the documents belong to the USA or the "sovereign" Puerto Rico? Neither! They exist in a convenient limbo, where no one can scrutinize them.
Did Congress intend to make this confusing? Would they?! Maybe they should pass a bill to fix this. What does it matter if people suffer in the meantime?
Do you --cosplay as a SCOTUS for a second here-- suppose Congress will legislate the issue of sovereign power over Puerto Rico's government documents, WHEN THEY HAVE NOT OBSERVED PR'S SOVEREIGNTY SINCE INVADING IN 1898???
Foreign in a domestic sense and sovereign in a foreign sense... If it means providing access to government information domestically, send the applicant to the foreign branch; if they go the foreign branch per orders, send them to the domestic branch. Rinse and repeat