Supreme Court justices dive into the question of when and if rousting homeless encampments amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments about whether a small Oregon city can cite and prosecute homeless people for sleeping in public places when they have nowhere else to lay their heads.
Attorney Theane Evangelis, representing Grants Pass, disagreed: “These laws are about conduct for everyone,” she told the justices. “There is nothing in this law that criminalizes homelessness.” But, as Justice Sonia Sotomayor pointed out, the law really does only apply to homeless people.
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