Together, they changed the legal landscape of the Eighth Amendment — the foundational ... our samples spanned cases from every circuit in the United States filed by prisoners held in hundreds ...

In a potential watershed decision issued on February 26, 2025, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled, in U.S.

At the time of the drafting of the Eighth Amendment ... and the provision in the amendment induced no debate on the floor of Congress. In United States v. Bajakajian (1998), the Supreme Court ...

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said on Sunday he does not think the law would allow President Trump to send United States citizens ...

President Trump says the Justice Department is reviewing laws to see if it can send violent U.S. citizens abroad.

The text of the Eighth ... Amendment if it were “a figure higher than is reasonably calculated” to ensure the defendant’s appearance at trial. Stack v. Boyle (1951); see also United States ...

The new Tenth Amendment stated: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” ...

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Its goal is to prohibit the abuses of England's notorious Star Chamber—a court under King Henry VIII where political prisoners could be tried in secret. With the Sixth Amendment, the accused has ...

President Trump has insisted that he’s serious about wanting to serve a third term in office, an ambition that runs contrary to the US Constitution. In his second term in office, the limit ...

Despite the 22nd Amendment prohibiting a third presidential ... go even though it is specifically prohibited by the United States' Constitution. Now he says he's not joking.