$7,000 to $1.5 MILLION. Secret hearing. Jury already seated. Journalist Defendant. Connecticut Judge admits bond was punitive. This isn’t justice. It’s retaliation. It's Weaponized Justice. #Lawfare #PaulBoyne #FreeSpeech
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#WeaponizedJustice #EighthAmendment
Our #ConstitutionalRights of the #FirstAmendment #SecondAmendment #FourthAmendment & #EighthAmendment are being violated. The Vice President says the officers can act with impunity. This must be stopped.
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NEWS - The judge said hormone therapy cannot be cut off, finding gender dysphoria to be “a serious medical need.” Read. more at link👇
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#LGBTQNews #TransRights #PrisonReform #GenderAffirmingCare #EighthAmendment #HumanRights #GeorgiaNews #CourtRuling #ProtectTransPeople
The #EighthAmendment protects against excessive fines, excessive bail, and “cruel and unusual punishments.” In a nation still debating what #compassion means, the amendment remains one [of the most important moral boundaries of the #Constitution.]
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This is the deadly legacy of Trump’s Supreme Court appointees: dozens of people have been marched to their deaths without any "meaningful airing" of the issues in their cases.
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#StopExecutions #ExecutionCrisis #EighthAmendment
It's been a while, but the lessons are still there...
#EighthAmendment #Freedom #Bail #Excessive #Cruelty #Prisoners #USGovernment #AllMenAreCreatedEqual #EqualRights #UnderTheLaw
"It just feels wrong to me. The idea that we're poor makes them uncomfortable. They don't want to be reminded that poor people exist," he said. Asked where he expects to sleep, Beatty shook his head and said quietly, "I don't know. I don't know." #EighthAmendment
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Banishment doctrines from English common law were long ago deemed unconstitutional in the U.S. You can’t lawfully expel people simply for lacking housing, courts protect against “cruel and unusual” deprivations under the Eighth Amendment. #HumanRights #EighthAmendment
What about Habeas corpus against arrest of immigrants especially the undocumented & infinite detention without due process?
Habeas corpus and the #EighthAmendment are related in that the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment can be a basis for a habeas corpus petition.
#OnThisDate in 2024, #SCOTUS decided #GrantsPassVJohnson, holding that the prohibition of camping under penalty of fines and short jail terms does not constitute "cruel and unusual punishment" under the #EighthAmendment, overturning #MartinVBoise.
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ACLU fighting for America 💙
Generic Tattoos ≠ Gang Members.
#ACLU #TrumpAdministratiom #Immoral #Corrupt #Corruption #AgainstTheLaw #AgainstTheConstitution #TrumpAdmin #AlienEnemiesAct #AlienEnemiesActOf1798 #8thAmendment #EighthAmendment #Judge #CourtOrder #CourtOrders #Deportations #Venezuelans
This is vile… This is not American.
#ACLU #USAnews #USnews #AmericanNews #AmericaNews #News #FederalCourtOrder #FederalCourtOrders #FederalCourtsOrders #FederalCourt #Inhumane #AgainstThe8thAmendment #8thAmendment #EighthAmendment #EmergencyHearing #TrumpAdministration #CorruptAdministration #Trump
Put yourself in their shoes. There’s a morally right and wrong way to do things and this way is NOT MORALLY OKAY❗️
Ignoring the 8th Amendment on March 8th…
#Deportations #Republicans #MAGA #USnews #USAnews #PleaseProtest #Morals #Kidnapping #Visas #Visa #EighthAmendment #8thAmendment #50501movement
No matter their crimes, American citizens—even prisoners—still have constitutional rights. Any attempt to outsource incarceration to a country with a record of human rights abuses isn’t just extreme—it’s illegal.
#HumanRights #USConstitution #CriminalJustice #EighthAmendment #DueProcess
Goldey v. Fields (24-809 @4thCir): Whether #BivensAction allows implied damages remedy for #EighthAmendment excessive force by federal officers. Challenges judicial power to create constitutional remedies. Builds on Egbert v. Boule precedent. https://tinyurl.com/28wh3l56
Please message Biden NOW and continually to #PardonLeonardPeltier. He’s 80 and his health health is failing he’s been in prison for almost 50 yrs. The #EighthAmendment decries “Cruel and Unusual Punishment”
Here’s the story:
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City of Grant's Pass v. Johnson, Supreme Court reverses 9th Circuit, holding that laws re camping on public property used to punish homeless are not cruel and unusual punishment
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#SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #EighthAmendment #homeless
New #EighthAmendment case from the U.S. Supreme Court
Does the enforcement of generally applicable laws regulating camping on public property against the homeless constitute "cruel and unusual punishment"? www.audioarguendo.com/listen.php?c...