Will the Supreme Court Make Life Worse for America’s Homeless?
What few constitutional rights the homeless enjoy may soon be on the line at the high court.
What few constitutional rights the homeless enjoy may soon be on the line at the high court.
YeetPics, Tread carefully SC. lots of us are on that fence with very little to lose should we become homeless. I can lose my house, but I’ll never lose the memory of how you fuckers sold us out to your donors.
moonsnotreal, “Why? 'Cuz fuck 'em, that’s why” -Supreme Court
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bitwise, They'll be moved by force if it gets large enough. Homeless people reaching critical mass is something cities actively "tackle" by loading them onto buses and sending them elsewhere.
Treczoks, They won’t differ, they simply make life as bad as possible for everyone.
GopherOwl, (edited ) Because nuance is hard to come by. . .
No, the constitutional rights will not change. They will still have protections against cruel and unusual punishment.
The issue is the 9th circuit ruling is overly broad. I fully agree if somebody has nowhere to go, then penalizing them for existing is cruel and unusual. With the stipulations of the Boise shelters, that was certainly the case for the plaintiffs.
However stretching that to “unless there is a shelter bed for everybody, nobody can be penalized for declining a bed” is an illogical conclusion. The difference is individual versus population. If individual A has nowhere they can legally go, they cannot be punished. But that doesn’t mean individual B, who does have somewhere to go also cannot be punished.
Using the same logic as the 9th Circuit’s ruling, if the government cannot provide a foster home for every child, then we cannot enforce any child endangerment laws. Even if in the hypothetical some child may be able to be placed with a relative, they couldn’t be removed from the endangering situation. That’s illogical and this ruling needs narrowed in scope.
Edit: I also want to point out that even this post is probably too reductionist. So please add counterpoint, clarifications, etc. One compelling counterpoint I’ve heard is the difficulty of determining who would be unable to go somewhere. And truthfully I don’t have a good argument against it. However I have a hard time accepting when shelter beds have lower occupancy, why no enforcement is allowed.
The bottom line remains these are people, and many desperately need help, some against their will. We need more housing, more support systems, more everything really. But throwing our hands up and allowing the problem to remain unabated is no benefit to the individual nor the community as a whole.
Buffalox, Yes they are after all mostly Christians. Christianity in USA is a form of insane sociopathy.
JokeDeity, They’re doing everything they can to make EVERYONE’S lives worse, so yes, absolutely they will.
superduperenigma, EVERYONE’S lives worse
Billionaires:
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JokeDeity, Billionaires aren’t real people.
superduperenigma, Based.
JokeDeity, Damn, can I be something else? “Based” has too much 4chan baggage attached to it for me.
zammy95, Based is a 4chan thing? I’ve only heard gen z kids (take kids lightly here, I just mean young people really) say it really
JokeDeity, Unfortunately for several years the only way I ever saw it get used was in reference to someone saying something extremely racist or bigoted in some other way. Now it’s evolved beyond that but I still can’t shake the way I saw it used constantly before from my mind.
h3mlocke, Un-based.
BluJay320, Will the Supreme Court make life worse for
Yes. Invariably so.
Unaware7013, Let me just simplify the headline
Will the Supreme Court Make Life Worse for America?
The answer is yes, that's basically all they do for 99.9% of Americans.
21Cabbage, Would’ve also made a great Onion headline.
BarrelAgedBoredom, Not even gonna read the article. Yes, they will
FireTower, Going to go against the grain here, probably not. The case hasn’t even been granted cert yet. They probably won’t take up the case.
originalucifer, i mean, i agree the conservatives have shown they contain zero empathy for anyone anywhere except themselves.
but
wasnt the US constitution written for and by a bunch of rich, land-owning white guys? i guess im surprised what rights any non-landowners currently have. lucky us!
BraveSirZaphod, That's a bit over-simplistic. If the founders had simply wanted to swap out rule by British monarchy and oligarchs with themselves, they could have done a lot more to enable that. The Constitution allowed the States to set voting rights as they liked, and there was more diversity than you'd expect. 60 percent of white men were eligible to vote in 1776, and while that's obviously not exactly good, it's not an attempt to establish a blatant neo-nobility. In 1789, Georgia abolished the property requirement. Vermont granted voting rights to all men in 1791. Property restrictions were gradually eliminated over the next few decades, and by 1856, property ownership was no longer a requirement in any state.
Given the original framework of the United States as a somewhat loose coalition of operationally independent states, it would have been seen as an overreach for the Constitution to mandate how states could distribute voting rights. The federal government wasn't meant to play a super significant part it the average person's day-to-day life.
lolcatnip, One does have to wonder, though, if the main reason they avoided trying to set up a new aristocracy is because they were afraid of what would happen if they did. They had just convinced a whole lot of people to take up arms against the king, and it doesn’t take much imagination to see those same people turning against a new batch of American aristocrats very quickly.
BraveSirZaphod, For sure; the founders were an ideologically diverse group of people with a lot of different and conflicting agendas. That said, the influence of some sincere belief in humanist Enlightenment philosophy is impossible to deny, even if it was certainly restricted in its scope. Many of the founders very much intended to abolish slavery, for instance, but it became clear that the Southern states would refuse to join if that was made an absolute condition. There is an alternate universe where two distinct countries were created rather than accepting the continuation of slavery as a compromise, though it's hard to say if that's really a better world or not.
My main point is that it's somewhat ahistorical to speak of the founders a cohesive ideological group at all. "They" weren't collectively avoiding are seeking much of anything in common; the final Constitution was the result of a lot of very heated debates and compromises.
Velociraptor, That seems to be the job of the Supreme Court for quite a few groups of people yes.
_haha_oh_wow_, Probably
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