The Supreme Court’s decision in City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson will save lives by allowing local governments and law enforcement agencies to determine how best to respond to homelessness in their own communities. In many cases, that will mean intervening in homeless encampments that are dangerous both to the people living in them and nearby communities.

On Friday, the United States Supreme Court found that it is constitutional to jail people simply because they are homeless. Their decision, in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson, clears the way for cities across the country to treat unhoused people cruelly because they cannot afford a place to stay.

The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that a local ordinance to bar anyone without a permanent residency from sleeping outside does not amount to "cruel and unusual" punishment under the Eighth Amendment.

The 6-3 opinion authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch reversed an appeals court ruling that found an outdoor camping ban in Grants Pass, Oregon to be unconstitutional.

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In a defeat for advocates of the unhoused, the US Supreme Court has rejected the argument that it is cruel and unusual punishment to outlaw sleeping outdoors in urban spaces. The 6-3 decision broke down along ideological lines, with the conservatives refusing to apply the Eighth Amendment to prohibit cities from trying to keep homeless people from sleeping in the streets, and the liberals in dissent arguing that “sleep is a biological necessity, not a crime” and that outlawing it unconstitutionally criminalizes the status of being homeless.

"We are a court of law, not policymakers of last resort," Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote, as he and the court's three liberal justices disagreed with the court's other five justices, who said Title 42 should remain in place at the southwest border while the justices review a lower court ruling ending the public health measure.

Title 42 has been used to quickly expel some migrants without a hearing since March 2020, when the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said illegal migration posed a serious danger of introducing a communicable disease.

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch said Thursday that the findings of the Supreme Court probe into who leaked the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization draft opinion will hopefully be coming “soon.”

“The chief justice appointed an internal committee to oversee the investigation,” Gorsuch said Thursday at the tenth Circuit Bench and Bar Conference in Colorado, the Wall Street Journal reported. “That committee has been busy and we’re looking forward to their report, I hope soon.” He did not reveal if the findings will be public.

Between 1901 and 1904, the U.S. Supreme Court decided a series of cases, collectively known as the Insular Cases, which asked whether the Constitution should fully apply to the residents of Puerto Rico and other territories recently acquired by the U.S. after its victory in the Spanish-American War. The Court held that the Constitution did not fully apply in those U.S.-held territories.

Former President Donald Trump called Friday’s Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade “the biggest WIN for LIFE in a generation” — and gave himself credit for the outcome in the controversial decision to undo federal abortion rights.

Trump nominated three of the five conservative Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade: Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.