Supreme court articles
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EDITORIAL: Trump seeks Supreme Court lifeline
“No one is above the law” has become the favorite slogan on the left.
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Supreme Court hears arguments on homelessness laws
A case working its way through the Supreme Court could end up giving cities the power to outlaw homelessness.
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Editorial: The Supreme Court cannot allow homelessness to be a crime
If you are homeless and have nowhere to go — neither a temporary shelter bed nor a permanent home — can you be fined or, worse, jailed for sleeping on a sidewalk? Or is that cruel and unusual punishment? That’s the question that the Supreme Court wrestled with Monday when it heard oral arguments in the case of Grants Pass vs. Johnson regarding the Oregon city's ordinance allowing police to fine or jail homeless people for sleeping outside. A federal district court ruled that the law violated the...