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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 that it is harmful for people to be living in public spaces, on streets and in parks, whatever bedding materials, when humans are living in those con…

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