Supreme Court allows cities to ban homeless people sleeping outside, even when shelter space is lacking

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Supreme Court allows cities to ban homeless people sleeping outside, even when shelter space is lacking
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The Oregon case decided Friday is the most significant to come before the high court in decades on the issue and comes as a rising number of people in the U.S. are without a permanent place to live.

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Sounds like the solution is for the homeless people to protest by refusing to sleep in shelters, forcing the police to arrest them all, overcrowding the jails and clogging the court system until the entire system grinds to a standstill.

So what do I know, I haven't been homeless in 15 years

Sounds like this will inevitably happen anyway. It's not like they are bussing homeless people to Colorado are they?

No actually, I am asking are they doing that, because I can see them doing that.

it's not exactly a new thing, but yes. they've been trying to bus people as far as they can get away with.

All the old Marijuana convictions being overturned means the corporate prison system has a shortage of free labor. Seems like jailing the homeless puts them back on top. Big Brain SCOTUS. /s