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Washington mdash; The Supreme Court on Friday sided with a small Oregon town that imposes civil punishments on homeless people for sleeping in public spaces, finding that enforcement of its anti-camping rules is not prohibited by the Eighth Amendment s protections from cruel and unusual punishment.The 6-3 decision from the court in the case known as City of Grants Pass v. Johnson is its most significant involving homelessness in decades. It comes as cities nationwide grapple with a spike in the num
stanley cup ber of people without access to shelter, driven in part by high housing costs and the end of aid programs launched in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.The ruling is
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stanley cup quencher s in an effort to curtail homeless encampments, which have spread throughout the West as a result of a federal appeals court decision in the case involving anti-camping ordinances from Grants Pass, Oregon. A number of state and local leaders across party lines have defended camping bans as necessary for protecting public health and safety, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit found laws imposing civil penalties on homeless people for sleeping outside when they have nowhere else to go are unconstitutional.The Supreme Court reversed that decision, concluding that the enforcement of laws regulating camping on public property does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Uoql Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to endorse Bernie Sanders 2020 bid
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stanley thermobecher ial mdash; but it s also challenged some easy assumptions about race, racism and prejudice. What you see is itrsquo perfectly possible to hold a negative view of at least one aspect of African-Americans and yet simultaneously prefer Obama, said Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Racial feelings are not as cut and driedmdash; not as black and whitemdash; as people often say. Franklin explored those contradictions in a large, national survey taken in mid-September, when the Illinois Democratic senator s rival, Sen. John McCain R-Ariz. , led in many polls and the nationrsquo economic woes had not yet produced a deep crisis. The poll asked voters whether they agreed with the statement that African-Americans often use race as an excuse to justify wrongdoing. About a fifth of white voters said they ldquo trongly agreed. Yet among those who agreed, 23 perce