Homeless people can be ticketed for sleeping outside, Supreme Court rules | CNN Politics

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I thought this was a pro-conservative community? Mods out here posting excellent reasons to never vote conservative.
- At this point the rule that only allows pro-conservative posts is just shooting themselves in the foot and having the exact opposite intended effect. Personally I’m cool with that.
This is a great strategy. Let's see how much blood they can squeeze from those stones. Can't afford a place to live? Lets charge rent for that park bench!
But of course the real idea here is to give municipalities the ability to harass people. It's certainly not about the fines. The less annoying homeless will be driven off by the harassment and then all that will be left is the annoying ones which might be a more manageable number to throw in jail.
- Homeless people have no money and they need drugs. Where do you think they get their money and other various items?
  
  Frontlines in Ukraine?
  
  Homeless people have money, just not enough for housing. People with houses also use drugs. All people get money from different places. Not sure what your point is but your generalizations aren't useful.
So where is this ‘indoors’ then that is acceptable?
- Prison, of course. In this case it'll be debtors prison in everything but name.
Wow, talk about hate...
They should mail the ticket to there house. If the don't pay it just get a warrent to seize there home.
That is so fucked up. So a homeless person is forced into the shelter system, regardless of whether it’s of good or terrible quality.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Supreme Court ruled Friday in favor of an Oregon city that ticketed homeless people for sleeping outside, rejecting arguments that such “anti-camping” ordinances violate the Constitution’s ban on “cruel and unusual” punishment.
“The Constitution’s Eighth Amendment serves many important functions, but it does not authorize federal judges to wrest those rights and responsibilities from the American people and in their place dictate this Nation’s homelessness policy,” Gorsuch wrote in his majority opinion.
Nor can a handful of federal judges begin to ‘match’ the collective wisdom the American people possess in deciding ‘how best to handle’ a pressing social question like homelessness.”
In a move that underscored her discontent with the court’s ruling, Sotomayor took the rare step of reading her dissent from the bench on Friday.
Grants Pass argued that the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on “cruel and unusual” punishment was aimed at torture or hard labor sentences, not tickets.
“These are low-level fines and very short jail terms for repeat offenders that are in effect in many other jurisdictions,” the attorney, Theane Evangelis, said during the April 22 oral arguments.
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For a second thought this said 'tickled'

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