[J]ust this week, the Obama Justice Department (DOJ) announced it was backing a lawsuit against a Boise, Idaho, ordinance that forbids camping or sleeping on public property.
The DOJ claims that when a city can’t provide adequate shelter for all its homeless, such laws violate the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
From the DOJ’s filing: “If a person literally has nowhere else to go, then enforcement of the anti-camping ordinance against that person criminalizes her for being homeless.”
Not "criminalizes him"?
Anyway, the laws in question forbid camping or sleeping on public property such as in city parks or on the streets.
The persons affected do not literally have no place else to go.
The laws in question do not forbid camping or sleeping per se, nor do they forbid existing, nor do they criminalize homelessness.
And a punishment is not cruel and unusual or not according as the law for violation of which it is imposed is inhumane or not.
Liberals choose stupidity, play dumb, in order to abuse the law and the constitution to get their way.
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