Sunday, June 30, 2024

Sleeping Under Bridges

The Supreme Court has decided that towns and cities have a right to remove homeless people from parks and other public spaces.  To me that is reasonable.  What I do find amazing is that in his opinion on the case Justice Gorsuch asserted that public camping laws applied equally to everyone and therefore did not target homeless people.


Wow!  Why didn’t he just quote the French author Anatole France, who famously said. “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”  


Couldn’t Gorsuch just issue his opinion without being a total ass?

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