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 ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump again suggested he may try to run for a third term in office, despite limits set by the 12th and 22nd ...

As a North Carolina resident, he also voted on a constitutional amendment ... citizenship in the United States was no longer considered federal law, that language in the Constitution would allow ...

South Carolinian John Warren writes that it’s past time for congressional term limits and urges state lawmakers to lobby for ...

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.” ...

and welfare laws—a dubious holding premised on a fanciful interpretation of the Eighth Amendment. We are the first and only federal circuit to have divined such a strange and sweeping mandate ...

While the Fourth of July may mark the birth of our nation, September 17, the date of the signing of the U.S. Constitution that occurred right here in Philadelphia, is the birthday of our government.