IS A "ONE-STRIKE" POLICY FAIR FOR PUBLIC HOUSING RESIDENTS?

In the U.S. Supreme Court's most recent evisceration of the U.S.
Constitution, justices ruled that elderly folk can be kicked out of public
housing if grandchildren living with them are involved with drugs.

The principal argument put forward by those who applaud the decision is
this: Public-housing residents are particularly troubled by the crime and
violence associated with drugs, so any and all measures that will reduce
these ill effects are therefore justified.

If I were a Las Vegas bookmaker, I'd offer these optimists a bet at
irresistible odds: 100-to-1 that drug arrests and overdoses, as well as
violence in public-housing projects, are not going to decline significantly
over the next two years, despite the now-absolute power of housing
authorities to evict the family members of druggies.

Bet a hundred bucks and win $10,000, if you really think evicting
grandparents is going to help the drug problem in the projects. Put your
money where your mouth is, I'd say.

I wonder whether I'd get any takers. Is anyone really that stupid?

This Supreme Court is a disgrace to our cherished American ideals. It's the
court's job to protect the Constitution, not to whittle away at it in the
name of pointless political expediency.

The court has sanctioned an obvious injustice in order to facilitate an
impossible goal -- the very definiton of immoral madness.

Ray Aldridge,
Fort Walton Beach, Fla.