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Political Cornflakes: A constitutional right to sleep in a public park? The Supreme Court may take up the issue.

Is there a constitutional right to sleep on a public sidewalk or in a park? It’s a question the U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to answer after the 9th Circuit Court struck down a city ordinance in Boise, Idaho, banning urban camping. Supreme Court justices have not yet decided whether they will take up the case on appeal. [LATimes]

Topping the news: Lawmakers aren’t saying much about the part of their tax reform plan that could allow annual property tax hikes to replace revenue lost to income tax cuts. [Trib]

-> Wyoming’s Catholic bishop says a proposed immigration detention center in Evanston, Wyo.