Are public health laws unconscionable?
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor must think so. She fired off an argument that a local ordinance banning homeless people from sleeping outdoors is “unconscionable and unconstitutional.”
Falling back as always on the progressive trope about victimization, she and the plaintiffs in the Oregon case insisted that cleaning up public ways of dangerous and illegal encampments violates the the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.
The argument demonstrates just how far progressives will go to justify their screwy views of reality. If you extend her argument to its logical extreme, I suppose you could argue that required vaccinations are cruel punishments. Or any public health law that supposedly requires people to act in the common good.
Hurrah for the Supreme Court by a 6y-t9-3 vote for throwing this nonsense into the trash where it belongs.
Wait, wait. Politico is reporting that the decision is a victory for Gov. Gavin Newsom. It wrote, “The conservative-majority Supreme Court handed Democratic leaders like California Gov. Gavin Newsom a major win Friday by allowing them to remove tent encampments as homelessness has become a top concern of voters.”
Oh boy, that’s a stretch for the blindly progressive media. Were not the policies advocated and installed by the likes of Newsom responsible for the tide of homeless inundating streets, parks and other public places in the first place?