The U.S. Supreme Court will confront America’s homelessness epidemic this month in a case over the constitutionality of anti-public camping laws, an issue that has led to disagreement among Democratic-run states and cities across the United States. 

The justices received a stack of briefs Wednesday from groups supporting a legal challenge to Grants Pass, Oregon’s anti-camping ordinances that opponents say violate the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment by forcing involuntarily homeless people to leave the city.