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Sep 2023
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The Bums And Junkies Take Over: Tim San...

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The homeless population is taking over many of the blue cities in our country and the government is allowing that to happen. Why?! They're homeless and drug open air markets.

Timothy Sandefur is the Vice President for Legal Affairs at the Goldwater Institute’s Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation and holds the Duncan Chair in Constitutional Government. 

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