As liberals carry on about the conservative majority on the court, I direct your attention to the three liberals on the court, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson—aka ”Girls in Robes Gone Wild”—and what a majority of them would mean for our country.
In City of Grants Pass v. Johnson, the court was asked to decide whether the “homeless” (in the sense that ”I am Hope Diamondless”) have a constitutional right to camp anywhere they please. Thankfully, a majority of justices found no such right in the Constitution.
But the dissenters concluded, Yes! Mentally ill drug addicts have total immunity from any local health and safety ordinances.
To illustrate how bonkers this is, consider that both the crazily woke governor of California, Gavin Newsom, and the certifiably woke mayor of San Francisco, London Breed, pleaded with the Supreme Court to allow them to shut down homeless encampments. That has been impossible since 2019, when the 9th Circuit—and the 9th Circuit alone—ruled in Martin v. Boise, that “the Eighth Amendment prohibits the imposition of criminal penalties for sitting, sleeping or lying outside on public property for homeless individuals.”
No other circuit in the nation agreed. Almost immediately, homelessness exploded in cities and towns throughout the 9th Circuit.