The U.S. Supreme Court voted 6-3 to allow an Oregon city to target homeless people for sleeping on public property.
The ruling handed down Friday overturns a 2022 decision by 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, with the court's conservatives finding that the measures enacted by Grants Pass city officials do not violate the Constitution's Eighth Amendment banning cruel and unusual punishment, reported NBC News.
The ordinances prohibit sleeping or camping on publicly owned property and...