How SCOTUS Could Allow Cities To Criminalize Homelessness
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🗓️ 22 April 2024
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Summary
After months of delay, House lawmakers this weekend passed a package of bills to send foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. Included in that package of legislation is also a bill that could end up banning TikTok. Hard-right Republicans are threatening to oust Speaker Mike Johnson over his decision to bring Ukraine aid up for a vote. At the same time, the legislation heads to the Senate for consideration later this week.
The Supreme Court hears a case today over one of the country’s most heartbreaking and increasingly intractable issues: homelessness. In Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson, the justices will weigh whether penalizing people experiencing homelessness is “cruel and unusual” and, therefore, a violation of the Eight Amendment. Jeremiah Hayden, staff reporter for Street Roots in Portland, explains what’s at stake in the case.
And in headlines: We’ve got a roundup of climate news in honor of Earth Day, opening statements begin in former President Donald Trump’s criminal hush-money trial, and workers at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee join the United Auto Workers union.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, April 22nd. |
| 0:03.2 | I'm Juanita Tolliver, and I'm Josie Duffy Rice, |
| 0:05.7 | and this is what a day, where we are taking bets |
| 0:08.0 | on whether or not Donald Trump falls asleep |
| 0:10.0 | during opening statements |
| 0:11.2 | and his hush money trial today. |
| 0:12.7 | You absolutely know he's gonna fall asleep. |
| 0:14.4 | And he's gonna fall asleep on the part |
| 0:15.7 | when his own attorneys are speaking. |
| 0:17.2 | Of course. |
| 0:17.8 | Yeah, if you were gonna take bets on this, |
| 0:19.9 | I'm gonna assume the old guy sleeps. |
| 0:21.8 | The old guy. The old guy. The guy sleeps. The old guy. On today's show the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments about criminal penalties for the homeless |
| 0:35.7 | plus after months and months the house passed a new round of funding for Ukraine. |
| 0:41.0 | But first today is Earth Day. So we decided to mix things up a bit and |
| 0:46.0 | bring you headlines first, starting with some climate related news. Headlines. |
| 0:51.2 | The White House once again is considering whether President Biden should declare a climate change emergency. |
| 0:59.0 | The idea is that the declaration could halt offshore drilling, further cut down on greenhouse gas emissions, and reduce crude oil exports. |
| 1:07.0 | But according to Bloomberg, the White House is divided. Some folks in his cabinet are doubtful the emergency order would give the President the authority to make actual changes. and |
| 1:15.0 | there's concern that the president would be |
| 1:16.0 | the authority to make actual changes |
| 1:18.0 | but others are excited by the possible votes |
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