which is more cruel and unusual? one of the most influential appellate courts erupted in public disagreement over one of the most difficult issues of our time, homelessness. having recently decided matters of affirmative action, student loans and adoption, on top of last year s rulings concerning abortion, guns, religion and climate change, scotus might soon have the final word here, too. at issue, ordinances in grants pass, oregon, which would impose fines on homeless people for encampment on public property. a trial court was faced with this issue, whether cities can impose criminal penalties for sitting, sleeping or lying outside on public property for homeless individuals who cannot obtain shelter. it held the ordinances were unconstitutional and constituted cruel and unusual punishment under the eighth amendment. the matter came before the powerful ninth circuit court, which has jurisdiction for much of the western united states and all of california. the ninth circuit
i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. for the second time in less than a week, u.s. fighter jets have shot down an object in u.s. airspace. on friday president biden gave the order to shoot down a, quote, high altitude object hovering ten miles off the coast of alaska. of course, last saturday fighter jets shot down a suspected chinese spy balloon in the atlantic ocean after flying across the entire country. joining me to discuss the retired air force lieutenant general, the air force s first chief of intelligence, surveillance and reconnoissance. he s a fighter pilot with more than 3,000 flying hours. he was the principal attack planner for the operation desert storm air campaign, commander of no fly operations over iraq and served on two congressional commissions focused on america s future defense strategy. these days he s the dean of aerospace studies. so what is norad s responsibility and what s the framework through which it determines a course of action? well, mich
We are spending on education and incarceration more than we are spending on anything else. We are dropping a lot of money on the back and just imagine if some of these programs that you mostly work in or want to start just imagine if you had 50,000 you could buy a house per year that money just poured down the hole because what happens is the about the Political Forces going on in the country to come up and say walking up. Three strikes and youre out and they wonder why they are vagabonds when they come out and cant get a job or student loan. They can barely get access to their own children and then we wonder why. They dont have anybody in their life. You see it. You see how this thing happens. Its a couple of small decisions that become big. That is a short portion of tonights programs on social workers in america. You can watch the entire Program Starting at 8 p. M. And that will be on the companion of work cspan. Now todays edition of washington journal. First up we asked viewers th
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