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The court rules that it is not cruel or unusual to arrest and jail people for camping in public, right?
by PessimalDecimal 2y ago
The court rules that it is not cruel or unusual to arrest and jail people for camping in public, right?
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> court rules that it is not cruel or unusual to arrest and jail people for camping in public It rules that the Eighth Amendment doesn’t substantially restrict what constitutes a crime, just the punishment. (It restricts criminalising status. So the court mostly focussed on whether the law criminalises homelessness, versus specific actions, which it found it does not.)