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.

  • girlfreddy@lemmy.ca
    93·
    11 months ago

    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.”

    • Uglyhead@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      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 Glad they finally rescinded that ‘Order 66’ on them.

      • CandyPants@lemmy.ml
        31·
        11 months ago

        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.

        • Uglyhead@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          I’m familiar with the story.

          Missourians hated Smith so much they gathered into another mob (Mormons were chased across Missouri by mob after mob) and went and executed him in another state. He was taking their chattel, they didn’t cotton to that.

          Now,…I don’t think he was a great man or a prophet. More like a grifting, glass-looking scammer. But I certainly don’t agree with a government order to execute any group of people on sight.

      • girlfreddy@lemmy.ca
        52·
        11 months ago

        The court corrected the state’s bs, so a change of state motto is still appropriate.