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Related: About this forumFEDERAL JUDGE RULES THAT ALABAMA LAWS CRIMINALIZING HOMELESSNESS ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL
A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction against the enforcement of Alabama statutes that criminalize soliciting donations and begging, ruling that the laws violate the First Amendments protection of free speech.
We are pleased that the court chose to permanently enjoin the states solicitation statutes, said Micah West, senior staff attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Centers Economic Justice Project. Criminalizing people for asking for help further disenfranchises those who are already facing economic hardship. The U.S. Supreme Court has held that the First Amendment covers charitable appeals for funds.
In 2019, the city of Montgomery enacted an ordinance imposing additional penalties on solicitation of donations, including mandatory jail time. Although the city ultimately repealed the ordinance after the SPLC, clergy, unhoused people and other advocates organized in opposition to the law, the city continued to enforce two state statutes that also criminalized the solicitation of donations.
https://www.splcenter.org/news/2023/03/14/alabama-law-solicitation-donation-unconstitutional
mopinko
(71,597 posts)on judges who allow these laws to stand. this has been up to the court in the past. its clear af.
Thomas Hurt
(13,925 posts)like they can impose ideological and religious tenets, the Constitution be damned.
They want their christofascist theocracy.
mopinko
(71,597 posts)made by chipping away at roe. and hitting it head on, again and again.
but failing to defend the 1st amendment
jaxexpat
(7,630 posts)It ultimately ends with the public exposure of fraud and petty ambitions, making lots of folks ashamed and in denial.
The pendulum swings. It would swing more efficiently without the electoral college.