WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

A Constitutional Right to Homeless Camps? The Supreme Court Considers

04.24.2024 - By Paul Gigot, The Wall Street JournalPlay

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Grants Pass, Ore., wants to enforce a prohibition on public camping, but a lower court said no, citing the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. What does the Constitution say, and don‘t cities have the right to keep their streets clean and safe? Plus, the Justices also hear a challenge by Starbucks to a power of the National Labor Relations Board. 

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