Screenshot of BlueSky post by Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social - 6 days ago - Right-wing SCOTUS majority in Grants Pass: "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges." But unironically. [Quoting the Supreme Court majority decision in Grants Pass v. Johnson] Grants Pass’s public-camping ordinances do not criminalize status. The public-camping laws prohibit actions undertaken by any person, regardless of status. It makes no difference whether the charged defendant is currently a person experiencing homelessness, a backpacker on vacation, or a student who abandons his dorm room to camp out in protest on the lawn of a municipal building. See Tr. of Oral Arg. 159. Because the public-camping laws in this case do not criminalize status Robinson is not implicated.
Screenshot of BlueSky post by Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social - 6 days ago - Right-wing SCOTUS majority in Grants Pass: "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges." But unironically. [Quoting the Supreme Court majority decision in Grants Pass v. Johnson] Grants Pass’s public-camping ordinances do not criminalize status. The public-camping laws prohibit actions undertaken by any person, regardless of status. It makes no difference whether the charged defendant is currently a person experiencing homelessness, a backpacker on vacation, or a student who abandons his dorm room to camp out in protest on the lawn of a municipal building. See Tr. of Oral Arg. 159. Because the public-camping laws in this case do not criminalize status Robinson is not implicated.