Justice Sotomayor: Should unhoused people 'kill themselves' instead of sleeping outside?

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Justice Sotomayor: Should unhoused people 'kill themselves' instead of sleeping outside?

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor suggested that an Oregon town wanted unhoused people to "kill themselves" after the municipality moved to punish people for sleeping outside.During oral arguments on Monday, Sotomayor told Theane Evangelis, a lawyer for Grants Pass, that the city's "intent is to remove every homeless person and give them no public space to sit down with a blanket or lay down with a blanket and fall asleep.""So we think …