Court rules 6-3 that homeless people have a constitutional obligation not to exist, with Thomas and Alito concurring separately to point out that traditionally people froze to death and ongoing homelessness is a function of expanding into “traditionally Spaniard regions”
Supreme Court justices expressed concern on Monday about punishing homeless people for sleeping outside when they have nowhere else to go while also struggling with how to ensure local and state leaders have the flexibility to deal with the growing number of unhoused individuals nationwide.
6-3 Counties can store the homeless in jails and it's not a deprivation of liberty because the homeless are allowed to leave if they agree to not exist or be deported to a far off colony
5-4 with the part of the decision that orders the US government to set up a colony is a country whose population is mostly or all brown.
Roberts dissent that the US government must be at least nominally color blind. And it should be any poor country.
Thomas writes for himself and suggests that vagrants should be arrested and returned to a farm where they will be housed and fed in exchange for labor.
Jarringly I'm watching Riverdale S5 and even they point out how mostof the homeless are military veterans. A show where the protagonist stops a comet with his abs has more compassion than SCOTUS IRL.
Agree w/your point re:SCOTUS, but veterans actually make up only 13% of the homeless population. The % has decreased a lot in the past 10 years.There's a whole infrastructure specifically for vets. No part of this "system" is adequate but the vets show that targeted housing and counseling can work.
Interesting.
In a more just America, Thomas would be serving time for accepting bribes and evading taxes on them, and his ill-gotten gains disgorged, while his wife would be in prison for insurrection.
Upon release, they might be facing their own housing crisis.
Must be nice in their little bubble.
I'm sure Alito and Gorsuch will apply their deeply held Christian beliefs to tell those homeless people the need to get the heck out of decent god-fearing people's sight and that if they'd just learn to fish like Jesus maybe they would have a place to live. Thoughts and prayers.
Can't wait for the SCOTUS to uphold the argument that mass shootings are sincerely held religious beliefs because the perpetrators are merely "fishers of men".
"Based on a close reading of 18th century law around the time of the founding of the country, we find that the sovereign of the Iberian peninsula maintains authority over the territory known as 'California'"
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.” ― Anatole France
Scene: Two SC justices collide while roaming the deck of a billhonaire donor's yacht.
SC J #1: "Oh no, you've gotten Dikensian in my Orwellian."
SC J# 2: "And you've gotten Orwellian in my Dikensian!"
