Hedge funds’ love affair with Puerto Rico is turning into a political tempest.

After years of throwing money at Puerto Rico, now investors are more worried about getting it back — and just won another court victory in a battle to stop the island from defaulting on $72 billion in municipal debt.

BlueMountain Capital and Franklin Templeton Investors sued Puerto Rico last summer after it passed a local law to skirt US bankruptcy law by specifically excluding Puerto Rico.

A federal judge ruled that the local law could not supercede the US bankruptcy code to allow a bankruptcy filing, and a federal appeals judge affirmed the lower court’s decision on Tuesday.

But in a nod to the growing political tension surrounding the debt situation, one of the judges said the bankruptcy law was unconstitutional.

That law, said Judge Juan Torruella, is “just another example of disadvantage suffered by Puerto Rico,” which he said had a “colonial relationship” with the US.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, speaking on the campaign trail Tuesday, chimed in, endorsing the access to US bankruptcy protection. Republican candidate Jeb Bush also supports the change.