Government
Aug. 13, 2024
Cruel and Unusual
California Governor Gavin Newsom has issued an executive order to clear encampments from state-owned land and threatened local governments with a loss of funds if they do not do the same on their property. This approach is inhumane and will not solve the problem of homelessness.
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law
UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).
I don’t expect compassion and sometimes not even common sense from the ideologically driven conservatives on the Supreme Court, but I do expect much better from California Governor Gavin Newsom. On June 28, the United States Supreme Court in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson ruled that it does not violate the Constitution to criminally punish an unhoused person for sleeping in public even if there are not adequate shelter beds.
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