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HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) - Following a 6-to-3 vote by the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold bans on people sleeping in public spaces, legislators and local officials had their voices heard.
"It seems every week the decisions that the Supreme Court of the United States make get farther and farther away from morality, fairness and justice," Speaker of the Pennsylvania House Joanna McClinton said.
The ruling allows cities, counties and municipalities to fine or even arrest people for staying in public.
State representative Izzy Smith-Wade-El (D - Lancaster County) along with other Democrats think the bans go against the Eighth Amendment.
"If the Supreme Court of the United States of America will not do its job to honor the Constitution of this fine country, then the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania will do that job," Smith-Wade-El said.
The Supreme Court found that outdoor sleeping bans don't violate the Eighth Amendment for cruel and unusual punishment.
"We have a lot of work to do not only in making sure that people have somewhere to sleep and to lay their heads, but a...
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