I like this piece, but lurking in the background of all of this is America's absurdly strong system of judicial review. Some judge somewhere would find fault with every single policy prescription listed here and block it- then the issue would be tied up in court for years if not longer. It's very under-discussed how our current problems …
I like this piece, but lurking in the background of all of this is America's absurdly strong system of judicial review. Some judge somewhere would find fault with every single policy prescription listed here and block it- then the issue would be tied up in court for years if not longer. It's very under-discussed how our current problems with homelessness all stem from judicial review- court decisions in the 70s that blocked panhandling & vagrancy laws, court decisions that made institutionalization much more difficult, and so on all the way up to Grants Pass. I've grown much more skeptical about judicial review in recent years, especially the power of 1 local judge to block literally anything they choose to, and I think that part of the solution is paring back the power of the judiciary
Here here. This is one of the worst problems, and those terrible one percent of judges all seem to live in a handful of state. We need less culture war, and stopping this is the first step.
I like this piece, but lurking in the background of all of this is America's absurdly strong system of judicial review. Some judge somewhere would find fault with every single policy prescription listed here and block it- then the issue would be tied up in court for years if not longer. It's very under-discussed how our current problems with homelessness all stem from judicial review- court decisions in the 70s that blocked panhandling & vagrancy laws, court decisions that made institutionalization much more difficult, and so on all the way up to Grants Pass. I've grown much more skeptical about judicial review in recent years, especially the power of 1 local judge to block literally anything they choose to, and I think that part of the solution is paring back the power of the judiciary
Here here. This is one of the worst problems, and those terrible one percent of judges all seem to live in a handful of state. We need less culture war, and stopping this is the first step.