'Stay awake or be arrested': Sotomayor's passionate dissent in homeless encampments case

Sleep is a biological necessity, 'not a crime,' Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a passionate dissent to a pivotal end-of-term decision on homelessness.

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I can't wait to see how these laws get misused. My local municipality banned camping in various public places, and if I understand correctly the police used that law as justification to falsely arrest campus protesters back in March/April.
- That's exactly what will happen. Indiana University did that literally a day before the anti-genocide protests started in a field where I spent a month in 1991 doing odd jobs for the tent city set up to protest the 1991 Iraq war. Before that, there was a long-lasting shantytown protesting apartheid in South Africa. Before that, there were anti-Vietnam War encampments.
  
  But suddenly, students weren't supposed to be there protesting after dark and the cops moved in and started their violence and began arresting people. There was even a sniper on the roof. Seriously.
These lawmakers just want to use government force to keep everyone woke.
It's all a ploy by Big Cartels to sell more meth