He is a former politician, and an advocate of statehood for Puerto Rico, and of the appointment of Puerto Rican-Americans to the federal bench, most notably of current Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, whom he served as a law clerk.
He also led in the fight for weight room/ sport facilities and for funding of Skeeters, the student-run pizza business.
He was a strong supporter of self-governing by students and actively opposed the college administration on a proposed campus-wide alcohol ban.
[4] Mr. Romeu explained that the island's colonial status has served as fertile ground for federal tax subsidies to the pharmaceutical and manufacturing industry for revenues realized, and patents held, in the U.S.
In that capacity, in 1998, he led the national coalition that broke the Republican Senate's hold on Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit[5]