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Salon
Salon
Politics
Nandika Chatterjee

Sotomayor slams SCOTUS homeless ruling

In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court's right-wing majority on Friday ruled that cities can enforce laws against sleeping on sidewalks and other public property even when homeless people have nowhere else to go, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The conservative justices disagreed with a lower court's ruling that such prohibitions violate the 8th Amendment, which prohibits "excessive" fines as well as "cruel and unusual punishments."

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