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    Editorial: The Supreme Court cannot allow homelessness to be a crime

    by Los Angeles Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times Apr 24, 2024 3 minutes
    Tents for the homeless line a street corner in Los Angeles, California, on Dec. 6, 2022.

    If you are homeless and have nowhere to go — neither a temporary shelter bed nor a permanent home — can you be fined or, worse, jailed for sleeping on a sidewalk? Or is that cruel and unusual punishment?

    That’s the question that the Supreme Court wrestled with Monday when it heard oral arguments in the case of v. Johnson regarding the Oregon city’s ordinance allowing police to fine or jail homeless people for sleeping outside. A federal district

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