Peter: San Francisco politicians, for instance, made a big stink of this. “The 9th Circuit is saying we have to let homeless people camp in public!” But that was never true, they were only saying you have to provide the people you displace with a place to sleep. A pretty basic requirement!

one element of Grants Pass is that it’s not just about whether you can enforce anti-camping laws against the homeless. it’s about whether you can enforce those laws **even when you haven’t provided adequate shelter beds**

First decision is Grants Pass. Gorsuch has the 6-3 opinion finding that the Eighth Amendment does not bar "generally applicable" laws banning public camping. Sotomayor writes the dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

www.supremecourt.gov

the 9th Circuit never said that you can’t, e.g., bust up homeless encampments. They just said that before you do, you need to provide shelter beds, otherwise you’re just being punitive and cruel. An extremely basic a call for decency, but many West Coast city leaders were outraged

San Francisco politicians, for instance, made a big stink of this. “The 9th Circuit is saying we have to let homeless people camp in public!” But that was never true, they were only saying you have to provide the people you displace with a place to sleep. A pretty basic requirement!

Peter why would we build shelters? The whole point is to just violently beat people up until they leave town! Stop saying it's cruel. It's not cruel.

Also as this piece outlines, SF was ignoring the ruling even while they were busy complaining about it missionlocal.org/2024/06/sfs-...

San Francisco's dishonest legal brief helped U.S. Supreme Court criminalize homelessnessmissionlocal.org The city's dishonest amicus brief provided succor to the Trump Supreme Court and will now enable a nationwide homeless crackdown.

the only thing many San Franciscans seem to hate more than a homeless person on the street is a homeless person taken _off_ the street to live in their neighborhood

Well then you have to spend money on the poor, so to them that’s what the 9th circuit was saying lol

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