9th Circuit conservatives blast homelessness ruling, say issue is 'paralyzing' US West
Some of the most powerful conservative judges in the United States took collective aim Wednesday at the idea that homeless people with nowhere else to go have a right to sleep in public, excoriating their liberal colleagues for ruling as much.
Their scathing comments came in a set of responses to a decision Wednesday by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals not to rehear a case in which a smaller three-judge panel affirmed such rights in September.
In their responses, the court's conservative wing painted a dystopian portrait of an American West deprived of its public spaces and under siege by an overwhelming epidemic of homelessness.
The debate provided one of the clearest windows into the new political since President Trump appointed 10 judges to the traditionally liberal court and President Biden appointed seven.
