Explaining a seemingly bizarre declaration from the outgoing president.

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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 ...

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 ...

A judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked President Trump’s executive order mandating that transgender women in federal prison ...

President Trump considers the rule of law “but an impediment to his policy goals,” the judge said, blasting the executive ...

West Virginia Attorney General John McCuskey, and 21 other states, sued New York Thursday over a new law requiring fossil fuel companies to contribute seventy-five billion dollars to a fund to pay ...

A Tennessee congressman introduced a Constitutional amendment that would allow Donald Trump and future presidents to serve three terms, citing the need to reverse this "nation's decay." ...