Republican-appointed judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit slammed their colleagues in fiery dissents for declining en banc review of a decision that struck down as unconstitutional an Oregon city’s ordinances targeting homeless people sleeping in public.

In a vote Wednesday, the active judges decided not to rehear the case brought by homeless individuals who challenged several ordinances in the city of Grants Pass in a class action. A Ninth Circuit panel last year said the city’s ordinances—which prohibit sleeping in public spots, like parks, with pillows or bedding—violate the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment.

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