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Is being homeless now a violation of federal law?

• Tadpole9181 1y ago
  Trump created an executive order on that too, so they're trying: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/endi... It directs the executive agencies to seek to loosen any restrictions on non-consentual admission to psychiatric facilities and to force homeless (and people with mental illness) into them. It also aims to end drug abuse recovery programs and says that not having physical space for patients shouldn't stop them, IIRC.
• dragonwriter 1y ago
  Law as something distinct from the immediate whim of the executive backed by military force is under (both figurative and literal) attack in the US right now.
  • protocolture 1y ago
    Whats under attack is the idea that this was ever not the case. Laws are arbitrary, temporary and not at all related to justice.
    • NoGravitas 1y ago
      Look, I don't know what you kids are into. But laws are threats made by the dominant socioeconomic ethnic group in a given nation. It's just the promise of violence that's enacted, and the police are basically an occupying army, you know what I mean? Want to make some bacon?