After Grants Pass ruling, will cities make public spaces safe for the public again?

Congratulations to the city of Grants Pass, Oregon, for having the clarity and courage to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to challenge the Ninth Circuit’s unreasonable reading of the Eighth Amendment. It is now the law of the land that cities may enforce generally applicable laws against public camping, because this is not a violation of the Constitution’s ban on “cruel and unusual punishment.”

If only Los Angeles had done this, we might have been spared nearly two decades of having sprawling...