Missouri Supreme Court strikes down law against homelessness, COVID vaccine mandates
Missouri Supreme Court strikes down law against homelessness, COVID vaccine mandates
A Missouri law that prohibited homeless people from sleeping on state land has been struck down. The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled the law is unconstitutional because it covers multiple unrelated issues.
The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a law that threatened homeless people with jail time for sleeping on state land.
Judges ruled unanimously to toss the law for violating a section of the Missouri Constitution that prohibits legislation from containing multiple unrelated subjects.
In this case, the sweeping 64-page bill also dealt with city and county governance and banned COVID-19 vaccine requirements for public workers in Missouri.
Judges ruled that the law is “invalid in its entirety,” Judge Paul Wilson wrote in the court’s decision.
In this case, the sweeping 64-page bill also dealt with city and county governance and banned COVID-19 vaccine requirements for public workers in Missouri.
Why is this the only sentence in the entire article that even mentions this part of the law? This is an important issue, too.
I don’t give a shit if Mabel has a sudden “religious objection” to vaccines, and whines about “freedom” to the few people remaining who can tolerate her. I have an objection to catching potentially deadly diseases from public employees, and unknowingly spreading them. Doesn’t that matter?
These people are deluded plague rats.
They've decided to join the war on disease on the side of the disease.
Even bigger than this is recognizing we don't have a national law that says a bill can only deal with one subject.
Because the lawsuit only challenged the homelessness provision, and the ruling was based on a technicality unrelated to the merits of the law.
Judges ruled unanimously to toss the law for violating a section of the Missouri Constitution that prohibits legislation from containing multiple unrelated subjects.
We have the same in Washington. If only we could get the same federally.
I think this is the more important reason why it failed. Not necessarily either of the titled subjects, but the fact that there are multiple unrelated.
Missouri's state motto, Salus populi suprema lex esto," translates to "The welfare of the people shall be the supreme law."
They should change it to, Pēdīcābō ego vōs et irrumābō, which translates to, "I will bugger and facefuck you."
They did something correct and that's where you go?
The court corrected the state's bs, so a change of state motto is still appropriate.
needs to start with me and my friend.
Welfare of the people…
Unless those people are Mormons,.. them you can shoot in the face and get rewarded for. Glad they finally rescinded that ‘Order 66’ on them.
After the Mormons stormed a private newspaper and smashed the presses for printing bad press about them. And raised a militia... And tried to use said militia to break Joseph Smith out of jail. There's two sides to that story. The states side is preserved in law. The Mormons weren't just sitting around reading their Bibles.
I don't agree with the law lasting as long as it did. But that story is basically a who's who miserable religious fundamentalist who fucked off and founded Utah.
Edit - I was wrong. Smith was killed in Illinois. I'd encourage you to read up on it. It's a crazy story.