Left coast judges create more sidewalk homeless camps

 Victoria Taft:

Welcome to the West Coast, Messed Coast™ homeless drug camp, where you can still smoke your rent and live in a tent without the cops bothering you for the foreseeable future. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has doubled down on that “fanciful” and “egregious” Boise decision made in 2018 that put the onus on cities to find beds for homeless, drug-addicted urban campers before they could give them “the bum’s rush.”

The court’s liberal wing voted not to rehear the case en banc and left standing a previous ruling denouncing Grants Pass, Oregon’s, recent ordinances to outlaw urban tent cities as unconstitutional. The city sought to have a larger panel of judges to hear its appeal. Leftists on the court said no way, and conservative judges on the court asked, in so many words, the crazy judges if they’d bothered to look out the window lately to see what they’d done.

Reagan appointee Diarmuid O’Scannlain issued a dissenting statement calling the original ruling “a dubious holding premised on a fanciful interpretation of the 8th Amendment,” which “now effectively guarantees a personal federal constitutional ‘right’ for individuals to camp or to sleep on sidewalks and in parks, playgrounds, and other public places in defiance of traditional health, safety, and welfare laws.” His statement was signed by 13 conservative justices.
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The judges who approved of this are as wacky as the people camping on the sidewalks.  It looks like it will take the Supreme Court to bring sanity back to West Coast cities.  BTW, liberals in Austin are also allowing urban campers.