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The Political Orphanage

Homeless Thought Experiments

The Political Orphanage

Andrew Heaton

Comedy, News, Politics

4.91000 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

In City of Grants Pass v. Johnson the Supreme Court rejects Martin vs. Boise, which forbade cities from dispersing homeless encampments if there weren't sufficient beds around to go to instead.

Anna Gorisch joins to discuss.

"Homelessness and our Stupid Solutions" https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/homelessness-and-our-stupid-solutions

"The Best Tiny House Village in America"

https://www.patreon.com/posts/best-tiny-house-61663866

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and

0:07.0

Hello and welcome to the political orphanage,

0:10.0

a home for plucky misfits and ideological vagabonds.

0:16.2

Whether those vagabonds are legally sleeping or not,

0:20.7

pertinent to today's episode.

0:22.3

I'm your host, Heaton and we now continue

0:25.6

with Judge Week exploring this term's major Supreme Court decisions.

0:31.2

Yesterday when I did a monologue on presidential immunity,

0:36.4

that was kind of a Lord Uncle Heaton passes around the Benadryl Cup kind of episode. So I did my best to explain all of that,

0:45.2

but if there was a liquid I was going to give people, it was Benadryl. Just everybody,

0:49.7

everybody calmed down a little bit. Everybody's simmered down a little bit.

0:53.1

Today, we will be discussing grants pass

0:56.4

wherein the Supreme Court tackles homelessness.

0:59.2

And this is less of a Benadryl episode.

1:00.9

This is just a nice easy-going, everybody smoke a joint, lean back in

1:06.3

your beanbag, and have a fun, thinky philosophical discussion with the other first-year law school students about abstract concepts.

1:15.6

Today's episode is lighter.

1:17.4

It is a lot more abstract.

1:19.1

It's fun, it's intellectual, but it's just, I don't know, it's lighter and it's more exploring concepts.

1:25.8

And frankly, I think we all needed that after this week.

1:30.2

So if what you enjoy about Judge Week is less a rundown of particular controversial cases,

1:35.6

although we will do that today, and what you enjoy is more analytical tools that you learn from

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