Margarita Mercado Echegaray

Margarita Mercado Echegaray (born December 7, 1980) is an attorney, the former Solicitor General of Puerto Rico, and the youngest to hold such post. Mercado has a bachelor's degree in political science and history of the Americas, and a juris doctor from the University of Puerto Rico School of Law. She also has a master of laws in constitutional law and civil rights from Columbia University. (Senate of Puerto Rico (2013; in Spanish) "En ese mismo año completó una maestría en derecho constitucional y derechos civiles en la Escuela de Derecho de la Universidad de Columbia en el Estado de Nueva York." The Association claims that Act 162 of 2013 is unconstitutional and that it minimizes the principle of judicial independence.)