South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson is leading a 20-state friend-of-the-court brief urging the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to allow states to regulate homelessness and public begging.
The brief asks the court to reconsider a lower court ruling involving an Alabama law that limits panhandling.
“The homelessness and poverty crisis does not stay within state lines,” Attorney General Wilson said. “Each state should be able to protect its citizens while also creating constructive and long-term solutions to this problem.”…