on public property. that was the law. the story would have ended there except at a huge corporate law firm in new york city called latham and watkins took an interest in the case on the other side of the country. now typically laitman watkins represents wall street banks and prominent democratic officeholders. but the firm wanted to change vagrancy laws to increase homeless. what did they want that we don t know. but the firm filed a lawsuit basil humphrey s behalf against the city of boise. that suit made it to the ninth circuit court of appeals. in twenty eighteen, the court declared cities have no right to criminalize homelessness in fact, the court ruled cities have an obligation to provide free housing to the homeless at public expense. the supreme court later upheld that ruling. the case was known as martin versus boise and it had exactly the effect that laitman watkins intended. city officials across the country no longer had an obligation to protect the public and public spaces
0 a three thousand dollar scholarship starting with your first explore your opportunities at phenix that you your shipping manager left to find themselves leaving you locked you need to hire. i need indeed indeed you do indeed instant and instantly delivers quality candidates matching your job description visit and be .com slash. good evening and welcome to tucker carlson. we want to begin by noting something obvious because this is the obvious show. if you live in the united states, you may have noticed that many of our public spaces have become permanent homeless encampments. you see trash filled tents blotting out what were once green and tide public parks. you step over vagrants and drooling unconscious on the steps train stations on the way to work you watch as smoke mess without any embarrassment at all and then yell at pedestrians on the sidewalk maybe eat your children everywhere at every intersection there are beggars. it s what we used to imagine india was like. but this i