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SCOTUS oral arguments: arrested for sleeping on a park bench?
April 22 @ 8:00 am - 9:00 am
The Southern Poverty Law Center claims, “[…]The bans [against sleeping and camping] amount to a rolling back of rights. Like the vagrancy laws wielded after the Civil War against newly emancipated black people, they imply that people experiencing poverty don’t have civil or political rights.”
The town of Grants Pass, OR, applies its camping restrictions against the homeless in their community. 42 amicus briefs counter that this action enfringes the 8th Amendment rights of the plaintiffs.Grants Pass has a population of 38,000 and an estimated unhoused population of between 50 and 680 people. Read more>>>
SCOTUS oral arguments: arrested for sleeping on a park bench?