To the editor: The Supreme Court gives officials more power to restrict homeless tents on public property. That's not the big news; here's the big news. Gov. Gavin Newsom applauded this ruling for supporting “common-sense measures to protect the safety and well-being of our communities.”
Newsom agreed with the six conservative justices and not with the three liberal justices. I'll give Newsom a profile in courage for that!
David Waldowski, Laguna Woods
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To the editor: Recently, the Supreme Court ruled that states can punish homeless people for sleeping on the streets. I wonder if they realize the irony that this decision comes in the year of the centenary of Anatole France’s death. France is famous for his immortal statement about the inequality of established law that disproportionately favors the rich: “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”
It reminds me of another famous quote, this time from Winston Churchill: “Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it.” You would think we would learn.
Mike Barrett, Ashburn, Virginia.
