The Supreme Court decides whether cities can punish homeless people for sleeping in public when they have nowhere else to go. The case has significant implications for cities and states dealing with homelessness.
In what advocates call the most important case on homelessness in 40 years, the Supreme Court must decide whether cities can punish the unhoused for sleeping in public when they have nowhere else to go.
The Biden administration is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the Affordable Care Act, a reversal from the previous position held by the Trump administration that the healthcare law should be struck down. Following the change in Administration, the Department of Justice has reconsidered the government’s position in these cases, Department of Justice Deputy Solicitor General Edwin Kneedler told the nation s highest court in a letter Wednesday. The purpose of this letter is to notify the Court that the United States no longer adheres to the conclusions in the previously filed brief of the federal respondents.
After reconsidering the issue, the federal government said it now maintains that the Affordable Care Act is constitutional.