Six years ago, in Timbs v. Indiana, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote a majority opinion that pointed out the origins of the Eighth Amendment’s Excessive Fines Clause and the original ...
The Justice Department has just released a scathing 96-page report accusing the Fulton County jail in Atlanta, GA of engaging in “cruel and unusual punishment” in the September 2022 death of a ...
An Alaska man is petitioning the Supreme Court to consider whether the government's seizure of his $95,000 plane for transporting an illicit six-pack of beer is an excessive fine under the Eighth ...