During a board meeting Jan. 10, educators explained that “Maus” was an “anchor text” for McMinn County’s eighth-grade English ... includes profanity and a drawing of the author’s ...

A gun rights group is urging the Supreme Court to take up a case that could strike down laws barring people between the ages of 18 and 20 from obtaining handgun permits, citing a growing split ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Jessie Hoffman Jr., now 46 years old, was sentenced to death for the 1996 abduction, rape, and killing of a woman in St. Tammany Parish. Back when he was put on death row ...

Grandmaster Aravindh Chithambaram came within striking distance of winning his first major tournament after an easy draw with David Navara of Czech Republic in the eighth and penultimate round of ...

March 2, 2025 [Photo: Arab American Civil Rights League] Danielle Khalaf, 14, an eighth-grader at East Middle School in Plymouth, Michigan, is fighting to defend her First Amendment rights under ...

January 23, 2025 • 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?

(Pool via AP) In his second term, Donald Trump has launched a full-scale attack on the Fourteenth Amendment. Rightfully, much of the attention has focused on Trump’s executive order purporting ...

WASHINGTON, DC – Letters by prisoners illustrate unusual and cruel punishments the incarcerated are facing despite the U.S. Constitution’s Eighth Amendment, which bars “cruel and unusual punishments,” ...

Johnson that a city does not violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishments when it enforces against homeless individuals its ordinance that bars encampments on public property.

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 ...