Explaining a seemingly bizarre declaration from the outgoing president.

While it’s all but certain Trump allies can’t change the Constitution—modifying the 22nd Amendment—the president could try to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Biden in a statement said the ERA “is the law of the land” because it was passed by a two-thirds majority in Congress, and three-quarters of the states have ratified it. But he stopped short of ...