Explaining a seemingly bizarre declaration from the outgoing president.

President Biden asserted the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, is part of the ...

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 Tennessee congressman introduced a Constitutional amendment that would allow Donald Trump and future presidents to serve ...

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 ...

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 ...