The prisoners write in carefully lettered script or on old electric typewriters. There are sometimes grammatical errors or misspellings. But the language is direct. They describe facing Stage 4 cancer ...

A New York state appellate court’s reversal of the $515 million civil penalty against President Trump is a moment to mark the glories of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution. The penalty emerged ...

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 ...

Sen. Suzette Martinez Valladares, R-Acton, announced Thursday she will be introducing an amendment to Assembly Constitutional Amendment 8, which seeks to implement redistricting for California’s ...