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Supreme Court will weigh banning homeless people from sleeping outside

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Supreme Court will weigh banning homeless people from sleeping outside

Type 1 [Missouri]@midwest.socialM to United States | News & Politics@midwest.socialEnglish · 7 months ago

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With homelessness on the rise, the Supreme Court weighs bans on sleeping outdoors

The case is considered the most significant to come before the high court in decades on homelessness, which is reaching record levels in the United States.

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This is probably the most prescient episode of Star Trek ever: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_Tense_(Star_Trek%3A_Deep_Space_Nine)

Basically Sisko and friends go back in time to America in 2024, where it’s illegal to be homeless and they get put in an open air prison.

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