24 states back challenge to transgender inmate surgery ruling with nationwide stakes

Idaho and Indiana AGs argue the Eighth Amendment doesn't require states to fund gender reassignment surgery for prison ...

Idaho Attorney General leads coalition fighting court-ordered gender-affirming surgeries for prisoners

Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, and a group of 24 total states, are appealing a ...
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Attorney General Todd Rokita co-leads multi-state brief opposing court-ordered sex-change surgeries for prisoners

Attorney General Todd Rokita, together with Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador and a coalition of 24 states, has filed an amicus ...
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Opinion | This 8th Amendment clause to help common folks just helped Donald Trump.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump certainly should not be the poster boy for the Excessive Fines Clause. Though his half-billion-dollar win ...
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Federal court says the $464 million fine in Trump's civil fraud case violated the Eighth Amendment

In a civil fraud case last year, New York County Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron ruled that Donald Trump's habit of exaggerating his wealth justified "disgorgement" of nearly half a billion ...
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This 8th Amendment clause was crafted for common folks. It still helped Donald Trump.

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 ...