• Latest
  • Trending
Democrats Look to Block Criminalization of Homelessness

Democrats Look to Block Criminalization of Homelessness

04/03
Israel Pressures US to Launch Strikes on Yemen’s Houthis, Demands Coalition

Israel Pressures US to Launch Strikes on Yemen’s Houthis, Demands Coalition

07/10
FDA Defies RFK’s Pledge, Approves Moderna’s Risky Vaccine for Kids

FDA Defies RFK’s Pledge, Approves Moderna’s Risky Vaccine for Kids

07/10
New Documents Expose $1.5 Billion in Military Aid for Israel’s Airbases and Facilities

New Documents Expose $1.5 Billion in Military Aid for Israel’s Airbases and Facilities

07/08
Tucker Carlson’s Interview With Iranian President Ignites Conservative Warhawk Firestorm

Breakdown of Tucker Carlson’s Interview with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian

07/07
The Left Finally Begin to Admit Trump Has Been a Moderate the Whole Time

The Left Finally Begin to Admit Trump Has Been a Moderate the Whole Time

07/07
Epstein Memo Sparks Outrage: DOJ, FBI Deny Client List, Cover-Up Alleged

Epstein Memo Sparks Outrage: DOJ, FBI Deny Client List, Cover-Up Alleged

07/07
US Contractors Allegedly Fire on Palestinians as they Seek Aid in Gaza

US Contractors Allegedly Fire on Palestinians as they Seek Aid in Gaza

07/03
RUSSIAGATE: Intel Directors’ Conspiracy Against Trump Exposed

RUSSIAGATE: The Steele Dossier Fraud Pushed by Intel Directors

07/03
Formella Faces Court in Shocking Abuse Case

Special Ed Teacher Indicted on 52 New Charges for Alleged Student Grooming and Assault

07/03
Thomas Massie Stands Firm in Kentucky Primary Fight

Massie Primary Challenge: Trump’s PAC Targets America First Champion for Opposing Debt and Unconstitutional Strikes

07/02
BIO Plots $2M Campaign to Remove RFK

BREAKING: Leaked Memo Suggests BIO Targets RFK with $2M Campaign to Undermine Reform

07/02
Paramount Settles Trump Lawsuit for $16M

BREAKING: Trump Wins $16M Paramount Settlement Over Kamala’s CBS Interview

07/02
Thursday, July 10, 2025
Subscribe
SUPPORT
National File
  • Home
  • Culture
    • Christianity
    • Video Games
    • Marxism
    • Snowflakes
    • Free Speech
  • News
    • Breaking News
    • International News
    • Fake News
    • Exclusive
  • Politics
    • Gun Rights
    • The Swamp
    • Deep State
    • Supreme Court
    • 2020
    • 2022
    • 2024
  • Big Tech
    • Technology
    • Alt-Tech
  • Sports
  • Education
  • Rona’
SUBSCRIBE
  • Home
  • Culture
    • Christianity
    • Video Games
    • Marxism
    • Snowflakes
    • Free Speech
  • News
    • Breaking News
    • International News
    • Fake News
    • Exclusive
  • Politics
    • Gun Rights
    • The Swamp
    • Deep State
    • Supreme Court
    • 2020
    • 2022
    • 2024
  • Big Tech
    • Technology
    • Alt-Tech
  • Sports
  • Education
  • Rona’
No Result
View All Result
National File
SUBSCRIBE
Home Politics 2024

Democrats Look to Block Criminalization of Homelessness

A group of 19 Democrats, including most of the progressives, are seeking to upend the criminalization of homelessness.

by Brian Pfail
April 3, 2024
in 2024, Crime, Drugs, News, Politics
Democrats Look to Block Criminalization of Homelessness

Last Updated on April 3, 2024

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, and 18 other Democrats filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court against the criminalization of the homeless.

The group of Democrats argue that the homeless have no choice and should not be arrested or fined as it is allegedly unconstitutional and will cycle them into a loop of poverty, reported The Hill.

RelatedPosts

Israel Pressures US to Launch Strikes on Yemen’s Houthis, Demands Coalition

FDA Defies RFK’s Pledge, Approves Moderna’s Risky Vaccine for Kids

New Documents Expose $1.5 Billion in Military Aid for Israel’s Airbases and Facilities

“Punishing poverty traps people in cycles of debt, unemployment, and hopelessness, increasing the likelihood someone will become chronically homeless, which makes the problem worse for everyone and therefore serves no legitimate penological purpose,” states the amicus.

Progressive Democrats have been fighting for “people’s housing” since 2020.

While the members of Congress signing here agree that the political branches have at least partially failed homeless Americans by turning away from their historical role in ensuring broad access to affordable housing, this Court has never permitted a local government to inflict pain on its own innocent residents for the deliberate purpose of running them off and making them someone else’s burden.

The Hill reported that this brief was ahead of Johnson v. City of Grants Pass, which would decide whether local authorities could criminalize living outdoors even when shelter is unavailable.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against local governments fining or arresting people for sleeping outdoors when shelter is unavailable due to the Eight Amendment, which protects against “cruel and unusual punishments,” according to The Hill.

In the aforementioned Grants Pass, Oregon case, local officials wish for the right to arrest and jail the homeless, citing crime, drug overdoses and fires.

Theane Evangelis, a lawyer for Grant Pass, stated in a release that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’s “decisions are legally wrong and have tied the hands of local governments as they work to address the hands of local governments as they work to address the urgent homelessness crisis … The tragedy is that these decisions are actually harming the very people they purport to protect.”

Grant Pass has received support from officials in Phoenix, San Francisco, 20 Republican state attorneys general and even California Gov. Gavin Newsom, D,. They said the case must go to the Supreme Court as their hands, under the current law, are tied, reported The Hill.

However, the 19 Democrats argue in their brief that homelessness rocketed in the 1980s after housing disinvestment worsened. The Hill reported they also claim criminalizing homelessness will heavily impact black and brown, youth, the elderly, the disabled and the LGBTQ+ community.

Grant Pass sees a large population of homeless people—advocates against criminalization attempt to set up these refuge camps.

According to brief, it supports these claims, citing that 37% of the adult homeless population is black and 28% Hispanic. Almost 40% of the 4.2 million homeless youths are LGBTQ+. The Hill also notes that the group asserts blacks and Hispanics are the most likely to receive citations.

The amicus was signed by Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Ed Markey, Mass., and Elizabeth Warren, Mass., along with Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, NY, Jamaal Bowman, NY, Nydia Velázquez, NY, Summer Lee, Pa., Ayanna Pressley, Mass., Rashida Tlaib, Mich., Shri Thanedar, Mich., Gwen Moore, Wisc., André Carson, Ind., Pramila Jayapal, Wash., Sylvia Garcia, Texas, Delia Ramirez, Ill., Barbara Lee, Calif., Linda Sanchez, Calif., and Ro Khanna, Calif.

Newsom Adds Highway Patrol to ‘Operation Smash and Grab’ as Mass Looting Continues in California

These Democrats are calling for investments into solving the poverty and homelessness problem. It may be in good faith, but the reality may be less fruitful.

Democrats Use Migrant Crisis to Urbanize Long Island, Change Demographics

Tags: criminalizationDemocratsGrant PassHomelessnesshousing disinvestmentJohnson v. City of Grants PassNinth Circuit of Court of AppealsOregonpovertyRepublicansSupreme CourtTheane Evangelis
Brian Pfail

Brian Pfail

Brian J. Pfail is a freelance reporter and writer. He previously reported for Newsmax and the Long Island Herald. Pfail has contributed to The Federalist, American Greatness, Real Clear Policy, The New York Sun, and Townhall. Follow him on X at @brian_pfail.

Related Posts

Israel Pressures US to Launch Strikes on Yemen’s Houthis, Demands Coalition
Breaking News

Israel Pressures US to Launch Strikes on Yemen’s Houthis, Demands Coalition

July 10, 2025
FDA Defies RFK’s Pledge, Approves Moderna’s Risky Vaccine for Kids
Big Pharma

FDA Defies RFK’s Pledge, Approves Moderna’s Risky Vaccine for Kids

July 10, 2025
New Documents Expose $1.5 Billion in Military Aid for Israel’s Airbases and Facilities
Breaking News

New Documents Expose $1.5 Billion in Military Aid for Israel’s Airbases and Facilities

July 8, 2025
Load More
Next Post
Mike Johnson, Who Praised Zelensky And Supports Israel, Becomes Latest Republican Speaker Frontrunner

Mike Johnson Gets Behind-The-Scenes Help From Biden And Plots To Get Trump On Board With World War 3 Funding By Acting Like It's A "Loan" To Zelensky

Ben Shapiro

Mentioning Israel Killing Aid Workers is Antisemitic 'Blood Libel,' Shapiro Says

Zelensky, Blinken, and NATO

Blinken: 'Ukraine Will Become Member of NATO'

Breaking News

  • EXCLUSIVE: The Federal Government Is Tracking Unvaccinated People Who Go To The Doctor And To The Hospital Due to CDC-Designed Surveillance Program

    EXCLUSIVE: The Federal Government Is Tracking Unvaccinated People Who Go To The Doctor And To The Hospital Due to CDC-Designed Surveillance Program

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • FULL RELEASE: Ashley Biden Diary Reveals Child Sex Trauma, Drug Abuse, Resentment For Joe – Whistleblower

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • EXCLUSIVE SOURCE: Biden Daughter’s Diary Details ‘Not Appropriate’ Showers With Joe As Child

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • FBI Asks Judge to Delay Seth Rich Laptop Release for 66 Years

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • McCarthy Used FTX Cash to Defeat Conservatives in 2022

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0

Recommended

Israel Pressures US to Launch Strikes on Yemen’s Houthis, Demands Coalition

FDA Defies RFK’s Pledge, Approves Moderna’s Risky Vaccine for Kids

New Documents Expose $1.5 Billion in Military Aid for Israel’s Airbases and Facilities

Breakdown of Tucker Carlson’s Interview with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian

The Left Finally Begin to Admit Trump Has Been a Moderate the Whole Time

Facebook Twitter Reddit Telegram RSS

Category

  • 2020
  • 2022
  • 2024
  • Abortion
  • Adoption
  • Alt-Tech
  • Bannon
  • Big Pharma
  • Big Tech
  • BLM
  • Borders
  • Breaking News
  • Cancel Culture
  • cartoons
  • Censorship
  • China
  • China
  • Christianity
  • Civil Unrest
  • Climate Hysteria
  • commentary
  • Con Inc
  • Coronavirus
  • Corruption
  • Crime
  • Culture
  • Deep State
  • Dissident Right
  • Drugs
  • Economic War
  • Economy
  • Education
  • Election Integrity
  • Elections
  • Exclusive
  • Fact Check
  • Fake News
  • Fake News Media
  • Feminism
  • Free Speech
  • Germany
  • Gun Rights
  • Hate Hoax
  • Human Trafficking
  • Immigration
  • Impeachment
  • International News
  • Iran
  • Israel
  • January 6th
  • LGBTQ
  • Life
  • lifestyle
  • Mafia
  • Man-Made Disasters
  • Marxism
  • Medical
  • Movies
  • NarcoGovernments
  • National Security
  • Nationalism
  • Nationalism vs. Globalism
  • Natural Disasters
  • News
  • op-ed
  • Opinion
  • Opioid Crisis
  • Palantir
  • Palestine
  • Politics
  • Populism
  • Race
  • Radical Islam
  • Related Stories
  • Religion
  • Russia
  • Sex Crimes
  • Snowflakes
  • Soros
  • Space Race
  • Sports
  • States
  • Supreme Court
  • Taiwan
  • Technology
  • Terrorism
  • The Church
  • The Hill
  • The Swamp
  • Thomas Massie
  • Trump
  • Tucker Carlson
  • Ukraine
  • Unions
  • Video
  • Video Games
  • Violent Crime
  • Vote fraud
  • Voter Fraud
  • Voter Fraud Investigation
  • White House
  • Wholesome News
  • Zionism

Recent News

  • Israel Pressures US to Launch Strikes on Yemen’s Houthis, Demands Coalition
  • FDA Defies RFK’s Pledge, Approves Moderna’s Risky Vaccine for Kids
  • New Documents Expose $1.5 Billion in Military Aid for Israel’s Airbases and Facilities

© 2024 NationalFile.com National File, LLC. Privacy. Corrections. About Us. All Rights Reserved.
Have any questions or suggestions? If you are having difficulty unsubscribing from our mail subscription please send an email here info@nationalfile.com Want to advertise with us? Please email: info@nationalfile.com

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Politics
  • News
  • Culture
  • Coronavirus
  • Sports
  • 2020
  • Breaking News
  • Civil Unrest
  • International News
  • The Swamp
  • Big Tech
  • Deep State
  • Voter Fraud
  • Marxism
  • Free Speech
  • DONATE
  • SUBSCRIBE

© 2024 NationalFile.com National File, LLC. Privacy. Corrections. About Us. All Rights Reserved.
Have any questions or suggestions? If you are having difficulty unsubscribing from our mail subscription please send an email here info@nationalfile.com Want to advertise with us? Please email: info@nationalfile.com