SCOTUS Considers CRIMINALIZING HOMELESSNESS In Complex OUTDOOR-SLEEPING BAN CASE | Roland Martin
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- The Supreme Court heard arguments today on whether ticketing homeless people is "cruel and unusual" and violates the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution.
City and state officials across the country are closely watching the case, which will decide whether the homeless have the right to camp in public places. People who live in those encampments are also following the case, as they are concerned about efforts to criminalize the population rather than build shelters and affordable housing.
The case is the City of Grants Pass v. Johnson, which was brought by several involuntarily homeless people in Grants Pass, Oregon, who challenged the city's ban on "public camping."
Justice Sonia Sotomayor grills Grants Pass, Oregon's attorney, Theane Evangelis, why city officials want to enforce criminal penalties for the unhoused.
Devon Ombres, the Senior Director of Courts and Legal Policy at the Center for American Progress spoke with Roland Martin about this complexed case.
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Homelessness SHOULD NOT be criminalized!!
So then invite them over to your house
@@simplesimple6014 Tiny homes should be built
They should offer some options to get shelter instead of criminalizing their situation! Once they get out of jail, the cycle continues! This is cruel and unusual punishment for citizens!
@@simplesimple6014 Respectfully, people like you are just as big of a problem as those who want to criminalize homelessness. It’s sad that you see the problem being with homeless people and not with the system that creates homelessness…especially in the so-called richest country on Earth.
Only a demonic person would criminalize homelessness, high minded, puffed up dirty.
The SCOTUS should be abolished.
Agreed, 💯%
Wish it were that easy. Systemic attacks on the homeless is just a step as they continue to weaponize the courts against the majority.
Ignoring cases in front of them for Project 2025 Ideology. Party over Country. Alito is horrific.
@jannichi6431 I have business, and I will hire a person . I also feed the homeless. A lot of them say they don't want to stop drugs and alcohol.
Spend monies instead on housing rather than criminalizing the homeless who suffer enough being homeless. Discriminating the unhoused is just that.
This is appalling
I expect this Criminal Court to Rule Against the Common man and the Poor
Despicable practice-criminalizing homelessness.
I live in the UK
Ridiculous.
How can a system ticket people when they are homeless!!!!!
So what happens when debt is racked up to the point with interest, overtime can lead to further debt or I assume go to jail or whatever.
Then when they get intermitant work, pay taxes & wages garnished to pay off debts further ensuring they can't maybe eat , buy basic necessities , or even save for their own place!!!!!
It's a disgrace!!!!!!!
It's as ludicrous as slavery
What more can be said.
Homelessness should not be criminalized
Why don't they try to help them get some kind of help, so they don't have to live on the street. This country is shameful.
I agree, the rent is ridiculous
Many dont want their help.
Yes it is
But yet they'll give illegal immigrants housing and hotels debit cards with money on them and find them jobs. Outrageous they care nothing about the US citizens.
WTF ARE YOU DOING?
Why are we still bringing cases to this corrupt court?
Exactly
Plot twist.what if their corrupt ass lost their job and became homeless?
Plot twist what if you let homeless camp in your house and yard.
How can the criminals criminalize the homeless?
How can you criminalize being homeless 🏚 its already enough bad that they're torn out torn down rotten out places in the 🇺🇸 already putting homeless depressed and/or mentally ill people in jails doesn't help any. Thanks for reading i know my writing isn't the best but im working on it ✌🏽
@Marvel-Rogue - Don't worry about your writing, it's the thought that counts
You have a good heart ❤❤❤
Right on, RIGHT ON!
Instead of addressing insanely high housing costs they think the solution is to criminalize poverty.. wtf?
Instead of sending money to help other countries take care of US citizens. No you don’t target homeless people
Everyone who considers this BS , should consider themselves! I could be you!!
You can't make this up you will be arrested for sleeping in public and we got all these guns on the street 😭😭😭😤😤😤
Well they should spend the money they are receiving illegally to build homes for them!!
I live in Oregon and it cheaper to live here but the pay grade is so low that I had to get help for rent this month's. Plus there elderly employees that still need to work. Like me.
Thank you for covering this RM
How heartless
SCOTUS should be abolished.
It’s just ridiculous to fine the homeless!
Welcome To The Terrordome.
Debtors prison never went away. Child support is a prime example. But the thought of giving a citation to someone who can't afford a place to lay dow is outrageous where are they gonna get the money?
Do that go for the homeless migration if they fall asleep wow we have military people who are homeless people who get put out of homes with children and mental health people do they get jailed also I think these folks are using their jobs to help keep the jails full.
Wow, Lord have mercy! This is a sad state of affairs we are in
This has got To be a joke! Wow! If it isn't enough that these people can't get the help they need but, now they want to compound these people's situation by criminalizing the fact that they simply need help! No Humanity whatsoever!
If you don't pay fines, you will going to jail.
So they want to justify spending money putting homeless people in jail instead of giving them a home?
Ever wonder why the USA has such a huge incarceration? Money is KING here. They try to pitt the immigrants against us so we focus on each other and not on the puppet masters.
It will overcrowd the jails
This sounds like enforcing the “black codes” vagrant and loitering laws.
Vote blue and stop this insanity
Ain't blue in right now what are you talking about how about all the immigrants running all over the place you like that
This has nothing to do with red are blue. The whole country is going threw this
How are they going to pay for tickets? Which will lead to more incarceration. Thus, more money will be required for prisons. Instead of putting that money into day shelters, it will go to increasing the penal complex.
Wow... Sad... 😲😢
We head more and more towards The Bell Riots. ST:DS9😢
These people are homeless. How do they expect them to pay a fine? What penalties will there be if they don't pay? Jail? If you are gonna put them in the system and give them a cot and 3 square meals, it would be a better idea to build more homeless shelters. I cannot believe how cruel people are to those in need.
People on the streets are already paying a heavy price!
Land of the free..... If you van afford it.
When did homeless people begin living in tents? I was homeless off and on for 7 years. Had a backpack and a sleeping bag with my stuff. Cleaned up and never trashed the area.
It's an epidemic with entire families living cars etc. Well their plan is working: Get voting folks angry enough about the camps plus nobody wants affordable housing or halfway houses in their neighborhoods so criminalizing is the next logical step. Has one blasted mental facility been re-opened? Current drug rehabilitation prgrams are often the spoils of bloated insurance companies. Forget about our travesty of a medical system creating free programs. Sure, the mega churches can afford to rehab & build health/mental facilities but evangelicals have proven their agenda is conversion.
This is such BS because this country has money 💴 for everything except helping the people of this country!!! 😢
According to the federal government, not having an address with your name on it is homeless!!!!!
If the parents are homeless, their children are homeless.
Don’t they have more important issues to address? Really, criminalizing homelessness! Find a way to help them! This is cruel and inhumane.
Maybe if we had affordable tiny home living for people we wouldn't be having this problem
lets making housing and food unattainable and lets criminalize the inability to attain it
This judges are going to be held accountable for these unlawful rules just like it says in Isaiah 10:1-4
You bet
95 billion dollars Would help Americans. Hmmmmm! Strang how we can spend money in other countries but not America. Really strange!
The C.E.Os of private prisons are looking forward for this 💯
Charity begins at home and spreads abroad. Why don't they do for this country, what they have been doing for other countries afar. Why don't they find solutions to the problems they've created by not raising cost of living when they don't raise people's wages and sources of income to be compatible with everything else. Why don't they create real solutions that impact real problems.
Of course, according to SCOTUS.
They already did that in Tennessee like a year ago. Sleeping outside is a felony here punishable by up to 5 years in prison. Also, if you have a felony, you cannot go to a homeless shelter.
I dwell with Gia, My mother from eternity!
Woe to those who make unjust laws Isaiah chapter 10 verse 1 through 4
They are a sad batch of people, the ones at the top!
Because Biden has helped out local ranchers, I have a job. However the owners and many coworkers are meaga supporters. I keep my mouth shut because I need the job so bad.
So only wealthy
Developers get
Financial
Assistance
For Luxury Homes
And Condos
Unfair and Unbalanced
Building shelters brings them no profits.
ticketing people with no money it’s like they want people to revolt
No one is safe, they are going after everybody. A person once told me that the majority of people are serial and it’s making me think.
The question is, who is going to pay for their medication!!!!!? Which will be expensive because the federal government is not able to negotiate mental health drug cost.
I get tired of hearing people say if we can.This system is built to do ALL of this illegal 💩
Let's be clear about this... the real issue here is POVERTY. Homelessness is just the result of not having enough money to pay rent. What this kind of law would do would predicate a person's right to exist upon how much money they have.
5:30-6:48💯
Why do you want to criminalize homelessness people?
Even when the Federal Government appropriates money for Homelessness, it doesnt seem to get through (diwn to) the homeless. Grants are absorbed by NGOs and 501c(3)s and religious charities. Scandinavian countries do paroles and homeless the correct way, half way shelters.
What is HUD doing
Not much. They are underfunded and have been since Reagan. Moreover, NIMBY is powerful.
5:38 *Exhorbitant?
This law will turn police loose to abuse the poor. (Like they don't abuse them enough now.)
Ah yes, those "Christian values"...🙄
I live in the democrat state of California where homelessness has become a major crisis. With that being said, I can understand how drug addiction can be one of the roots causes because in my state drug users are able to gain public access to crack pipes and needles from certain programs, public dispensers on the streets and even placed in apartment buildings and if this country is gonna criminalize homeless ppl that are addicted to drugs then I say criminalize the ppl/groups that’s behind those type of programs that publicly distributes drug paraphernalia too
Some of them have to go to a drug program, and they don't want to get off of drug. What do you do if they don't want the help?
*most Americans live paycheck to paycheck, they miss one paycheck and they're homeless including family members like children, what do you do with them? how about disabled veterans or teenagers transferring out of adoption agencies put out on the street*
Yo, it's expensive to be homeless. Not allowed to be nomadic? It was nuce to see people during the pandemic freak out, 😂 as a homeless person ive never seen an overly obese person on the street.
i can tell most people in the comments read the title, stay for two minutes max, and leave.
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Perhaps homeless people should have total immunity after all it's not a crime not like the previous president acting on personal gain !
INSTEAD OF RELEIF FOR HARDSHIPS SUFFERED BY THE HOMELESS, DESANTIS MEETS THEM WITH CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT !
GRANTS PASS WANTS TO DO THE SAME !
Every injustice, is over something else, being of worth, than one another's well-being....
THAT'S THE REAL CRIME !
WHO'S NOT WORTHY OF WELL-BEING....?
ARE YOU WORTHY....?
Have no other worth (God), besides Me, to rival Me....
Where one another is of worth, there is no cost.... it's Priceless !
TREAT OTHERS THE WAY YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE TREATED....
Reparations would help solve the homeless problem, but you don’t believe in giving people what owed them.
So would a job LOL!!!! Your welfare mentality is showing.
Have to think about israel, ukraine and the migrants in newyork first. Homeless americans come last.The irony is crazzzzy.
Like why cant the homeless get the kinds of help the illegals or migrants are getting?
Jesus was homeless
Homelessness??? Ummmm, how much war support (Ukraine) and genocide support
(Isreal) did America give out again?? Whats that number??? Not millions, billions?? There are homeless people where now???
SCOTUS SHOULD NOT BE A LIFE APPOINTMENT THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS
So Martin unrelated topic I got hit with a bunch of black Republican nonsense. Didnt know you was Haitian bruh. They out here making a bunch of comments hoping something sticks on you man. I mean being Haitian isn't an insult but they are making crazy claims on your name uncle Ro
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Roland you are begging for the wrong thing, you keep on missing the Key point of reparations. start fighting for what is owed black folk. In the states that’s a $19 trillion bag at the least and there will be money for you and others like you to have a better media presence. If you don’t have it better media presence we and they know that you don’t have it but you will never have it as long as you don’t have the capital and the resources to purchase what you need in a capitalist society. Please fight for the money that is owed for you and blacks around the world as well as those who are here. Anything else is just a complaint from a beggar for a bag, get what is owed.
Quit feeding them. Let them work for their food like everyone else. Until we reprogram these people to take care of themselves you are just spinning your wheels.
While you guys are fighting over which Caucasian should be president, you've also ignored my plea to become the next US President yet claiming yourself to be pro African-American. African-Americans didn't step up when I stepped up to be president. You see, the homeless problem wouldn't be as it is now had you listened to me because my plan would be to simply tax the billionaire's and build shelters to eliminate the homelessness while creating jobs for abled homeless people. But maybe because my stance is against abortion and lgbtq plus, you did not even think to consider me. Maybe because my stance is also against RACISM, you did not even think to consider me. As the Lord God told the prophet Samuel, They did not reject you, but they've rejected ME (GOD).
Repent and Surrender your hearts and minds to Jesus Christ.
The Blessed Lord and Savior Jesus Christ shall soon return. Amen.
EVERYONE IS OK WITH THIS CRAP UNTIL ITS IN YOUR AREA. I don't want homeless people camping, begging, and drugging in my area. If y'all are so offended INVITE THEM IN YOUR PLACE.
If we make low income housing you would see less of it.
You sound like a real sob
I live in downtown philadelphia i got homeless people 200 ft from my door, they know everybody in the neighborhood, they're super kind. So, no, not everybody is as heartless and judgmental as you
@zhivago3633 ' You have no idea what life has in store for you
You could lose everything in the blink of an eye
And you can be homeless
@@sherribatko8981Right on, RIGHT ON!.
The poor media stands up for the real people struggling every day from the moscow republican party vote blue
Every day the rich get rich er and the republican party dont care how many people they syab in the back head along as nobody i. Thier family