Supreme Court case could impact how cities handle homelessness
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Letters to the Editor: Opposing views on the Grants Pass homelessness case at the Supreme Court
To the editor: The U.S. Supreme Court may allow municipalities to crack down on homeless encampments within their jurisdiction. This would effectively make homelessness a crime. This attitude is nothing new. Nearly 100 years ago, G.K. Chesterton wrote: "For our law has in it a turn of humor or touch of fancy which Nero or Herod never happened to think of: that of actually punishing homeless people for not sleeping at home." We live in a culture where we idolize the rich and despise the poor. We...
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Maine’s homeless advocates are closely following this key Supreme Court case
The Court will soon decide whether the city of Grants Pass, Oregon, enacted a “cruel and unusual” punishment when it fined and sometimes jailed hundreds of people sleeping outside.
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Supreme Court Takes New Step In Jan. 6 Case, Orders DOJ To Explain Themselves
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