On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear argument in an Eighth Amendment case, City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson. One thing I will be watching for is whether the justices in their questions treat ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court on Monday declined to review whether a convicted murder's intellectual disability is severe enough ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Eighth Amendment to the Constitution bars the federalgovernment from imposing excessive bail and fines and prohibits the ...

George Floyd had been killed just days before. The eyes of the nation were on Minnesota as it became the epicenter of America’s reckoning with inequality and injustice. It was with that backdrop that ...

The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether city laws that punish individuals to curb the growth of homeless encampments violate the Constitution’s limits on cruel and unusual punishment. The ...

The Eighth Amendment. What is cruel and unusual punishment? Who gets to define and decide its boundaries? And how did the Constitution's authors imagine it might change? Today on Throughline's We the ...

IN 2013 local leaders in Grants Pass, Oregon, held a meeting to brainstorm ideas for how to tackle the city’s growing “vagrancy problem”. A record of that meeting states that participants suggested ...

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday temporarily blocked Trump’s order that sought to move transgender women in federal prisons to men’s wards and end their gender-affirming care. The three ...

Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the Constitution and civics education written by Paul G. Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The U.S. Constitution is the ...

Cruel and unusual punishment may be unconstitutional, but it seems to happen anyway. Also, we mourn the passing of Brad Pitt. Demonstrators meet on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol Jan. 23, 2024 ...