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Washington mdash;The Supreme Court said Friday it will weigh whether a city s enforcement of rules prohibiting homeless residents from camping on public property violates the Constitution s protection from cruel and unusual punishment.The court agreed to take up a case arising from Grants Pass, Oregon, which enacted three ordinances that prohibit sleeping on public sidewalks or streets and camping on streets, parks or other publicly owned property. Violators are subject to civil citations and can be barred from entering a city park for 30 days.Three homeless residents sued the city in October 2018 on behalf of themselves and all involuntarily homeless individuals living in Grants Pass. They soug stanley water bottle ht to block the city from enforcing the ordinances, which they said unconstitutionally punished them for resting, sleeping and seeking shelter from the elements in Grants Pass. A count of homeless individuals conducted by the United Community Action Network in January 2019 found there were 602 homeless people in the city. The plaintiffs argued that the city had criminalized their existence in Grants Pass, as there are no city-run homeless shelters there and only two privately run housing programs, which serve a fraction of the homeless population.A federal district courtruledagainst the city, finding in part that the Eighth Am stanley becher endment prohibits civil enforcement of its ordinances. The court blocked Grants Pass from en stanley cup forcing its anti-camping o Oqwv What the U.K. Election Could Mean for the U.S.
Christine O Donnell is running for the Republican Senate nomination in Delaware Facebook Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski suffered a stunning defeat in the Republican primary last week after she refused to go negative against her Tea Party-backed opponent Joe Miller. Republican Rep. Mike Castle, running for the open Senate seat in Delaware, doesn t plan on following Murkowski s lead. Castle s campaign is planning to air negative ads against his primary opponent Christine O Donnell, National Journal s Hotline reports. Castle, who has represented Delaware s only congressional district for 18 years, has for months been the presumptive Republican nominee for Joe Biden s old Senate seat. Meanwhile, O Donnell is a stanley quencher perennial candidate in the state. This year, however, O Donnell has the stanley water jug backing of the Tea Party Express, the group that helped Miller to success in Alaska. The group has pledged to spend $250,000 for O Donnell before the September 14 primary. The Tea Party group s money may not have a huge impac stanley flask t in Delaware, which is in the expensive Philadelphia media market. But the group could still manage to mobilize conservative voters in what is expected to be a low-turnout primary.Hotline reports that Castle s campaign is already planning to spend $180,000 on ads through Sept. 6th, but may reserve its negative ads for the following week. Still, the |
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