Wanna know how you get a doom loop? Let cities like Grants Pass make it illegal to be homeless, so the affected people go to a city like Portland, which is probably not going to pass such a law (yet), causing the pressure there to increase, making everybody angry and miserable until Portland passes the law, and then ...
Meanwhile, Tucker Carlson is saying "look how much worse the libberul cities are now".
"In a case about whether it is possible to pass laws that all but make it impossible for #homeless people to live in a city without breaking the law, I couldn’t help but notice that the highest-paid lawyer in front of the justices in the case was defending this policy — and received the most support for her argument from the wealthiest justice." #SCOTUS via @chrisgeidner https://www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-grants-pass-homelessness-arguments
"The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments Monday over a challenge to a law letting cities fine homeless people, potentially radically changing the lives of the hundreds of thousands without homes.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that cities cannot ticket homeless people for camping in public when there were no alternative shelters available, though the municipalities backing the suit want that opinion overturned."
Helen Cruz racked up more than $2,000 in fines for sleeping in Grants Pass parks when she was homeless for about six years but now lives at a church feeding others who live on the southern Oregon city’s streets.
Almost half of Cruz’s fines came in 2022.
Palestinian women sit on the rubble of a residential building that housed their apartments in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, on April 18, 2024 [Doaa Rouqa/Reuters]
Until the 1960s, many mentally ill people in the U.S. were locked away in asylums. In the face of a growing mental health and homelessness crisis, some are now asking if we should return to forced treatment and institutionalization.
@NPR reports: "Today, many of those who would historically be institutionalized in asylums are now instead incarcerated in jail, cycling in and out of emergency rooms, and living on the streets."
He spends much of his time walking in forests because he can't tolerate the air quality in most places. He's been documenting his journey with beautiful photos of forests for a few years now:
If you're in the UK, check out this new Rough Sleeping Criminal Justice Bill. Feel free to boost this for visibility or add hashtags - I think it's important to set &/or maintain the precedent that these laws be debated and critiqued very thoroughly. Telling someone with no home to 'move along' is a stiff order. That police could be asked to uphold this law (as it is written) could carry a risk of moral injury to our coppers.
“Nuisance rough sleeping” starts at s.59, and the offending smelly “rough sleeping condition” can be found at s.69(5)(c). Including words from subs.(4):
> A person does “something that is a nuisance” if the person ... causes or does something capable of causing ... damage to the environment (including excessive noise, smells, litter or deposits of waste)...
If one were to parody this, I'd propose the following as a start:
"Sleeping in public in the UK must now be done only in a suit and tie or equivalent formal dress, whilst wearing a perfume. Snoring is illegal. Campaigners are lobbying the government to permit it to be carried out whilst wearing a polo-shirt and chinos, however the government maintain that this is a slippery slope to people wearing pyjamas in public, and thence anarchy."
Information about one's MP is available at https://www.theyworkforyou.com/ if you feel further critique of this law is a worthy cause. I'd suggest any MP pushing for this would get positive media coverage.
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The Supreme Court has made horrible decisions in recent years, and it's impossible to top Dobbs for harm caused ... but I’m scared that the decision in Grants Pass v. Johnson and what comes after will break my heart completely 😢