The national housing crisis and related epidemic of homelessness have reached the US Supreme Court. On April 22, the Court heard arguments in City of Grants Pass v. Gloria Johnson, a case with high stakes for youth and adults experiencing homelessness. The case, likely to be decided this month, will determine the constitutionality of a city criminalizing homeless people, for sleeping in public with a blanket, in an effort to push them out of town.
In the wake of the deadly shooting that took the lives of 19 elementary school children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, 2022, Congress passed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA), the first major piece of federal legislation to address gun violence since the 1994 assault weapons ban. On June 25, 2022, President Biden signed the BSCA into law. Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, Pub. L. No. 117-159, 136 Stat. 1313 (2022).
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