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California Governor
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Today’s Supreme Court ruling in Grants Pass provides state and local officials the definitive authority to implement and enforce policies to clear unsafe homeless encampments and helps us deliver common-sense measures to protect the safety and well-being of our communities. pic.twitter.com/dNwMf6zhIG
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Steve Vladeck
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First (but not last) ruling from #SCOTUS today is Grants Pass (the homelessness case).
Justice Gorsuch for a 6-3 ideologically split majority rejects challenge to local camping ban:
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-175_19m2.pdf
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court ruled today that cities can punish unhoused people for sleeping in public, even if they have nowhere else to go.
We cannot arrest our way out of homelessness.
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Rachel Cohen
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“Elected officials want an easy way out of this catastrophe, and when your only tool is a police officer, everyone looks like a prisoner.”
read @JerusalemDemsas on Grants Pass - a homelessness case about a housing problem
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/06/martin-v-boise-supreme-court-ruling-grants-pass-oregon/678834/
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