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  1. #AppealsCourt panel let's #DJT off the hook for financial penalty of hundreds of millions in fines. Panel agrees #TrumpOrg committed fraud, but that cannot be fined "excessive" $464 million. for it.

    University of #Michigan #LawSchool Professor Barbara McQuade said "the court found that the fine was excessive and has eliminated that under the #EighthAmendment. What it said, most importantly, is that there was #fraud. That the #verdict was absolutely sound. That the evidence showed that the Trump Organization engaged in massive fraud..."

    "Pathetic really. At this point, a slap on the wrist isn't going to stop Trump's fraud. Is this an admission by the NY appeals court that the no law anywhere can hold him accountable?" asked tech lawyer Benjamin Kabak on MSNBC.

    youtu.be/wtv49S6L1VM

  2. CW: Death Penalty

    In death penalty cases, the quest for justice is not America’s highest value theconversation.com/in-death-p

    States such as Louisiana have enacted factual innocence statutes because there is no nationwide, constitutional bar to executing people who are factually innocent.

    #DeathRow #EighthAmendment #Exoneration

  3. CW: Death Penalty

    In death penalty cases, the quest for justice is not America’s highest value theconversation.com/in-death-p

    States such as Louisiana have enacted factual innocence statutes because there is no nationwide, constitutional bar to executing people who are factually innocent.

    #DeathRow #EighthAmendment #Exoneration

  4. CW: Death Penalty

    In death penalty cases, the quest for justice is not America’s highest value theconversation.com/in-death-p

    States such as Louisiana have enacted factual innocence statutes because there is no nationwide, constitutional bar to executing people who are factually innocent.

    #DeathRow #EighthAmendment #Exoneration

  5. CW: Death Penalty

    In death penalty cases, the quest for justice is not America’s highest value theconversation.com/in-death-p

    States such as Louisiana have enacted factual innocence statutes because there is no nationwide, constitutional bar to executing people who are factually innocent.

    #DeathRow #EighthAmendment #Exoneration

  6. CW: Death Penalty

    In death penalty cases, the quest for justice is not America’s highest value theconversation.com/in-death-p

    States such as Louisiana have enacted factual innocence statutes because there is no nationwide, constitutional bar to executing people who are factually innocent.

    #DeathRow #EighthAmendment #Exoneration

  7. #USGOV uses term #Horrific to describe #incarceration in great state of #Georgia...

    #DOJ released probe on conditions of #prisons in the state of #GA, which it said were "#inhumane" and in violation of the #USConstitution #EighthAmendment which prohibits #CruelAndUnusualPunishment

    US GOVT sez #GeorgiaPrisons ''deliberately indifferent'' to unchecked deadly #violence, widespread #druguse, #extortion and #SexualAbuse at state lockups...

    thehill.com/homenews/state-wat

  8. #USGOV uses term #Horrific to describe #incarceration in great state of #Georgia...

    #DOJ released probe on conditions of #prisons in the state of #GA, which it said were "#inhumane" and in violation of the #USConstitution #EighthAmendment which prohibits #CruelAndUnusualPunishment

    US GOVT sez #GeorgiaPrisons ''deliberately indifferent'' to unchecked deadly #violence, widespread #druguse, #extortion and #SexualAbuse at state lockups...

    thehill.com/homenews/state-wat

  9. #USGOV uses term #Horrific to describe #incarceration in great state of #Georgia...

    #DOJ released probe on conditions of #prisons in the state of #GA, which it said were "#inhumane" and in violation of the #USConstitution #EighthAmendment which prohibits #CruelAndUnusualPunishment

    US GOVT sez #GeorgiaPrisons ''deliberately indifferent'' to unchecked deadly #violence, widespread #druguse, #extortion and #SexualAbuse at state lockups...

    thehill.com/homenews/state-wat

  10. #USGOV uses term #Horrific to describe #incarceration in great state of #Georgia...

    #DOJ released probe on conditions of #prisons in the state of #GA, which it said were "#inhumane" and in violation of the #USConstitution #EighthAmendment which prohibits #CruelAndUnusualPunishment

    US GOVT sez #GeorgiaPrisons ''deliberately indifferent'' to unchecked deadly #violence, widespread #druguse, #extortion and #SexualAbuse at state lockups...

    thehill.com/homenews/state-wat

  11. #USGOV uses term #Horrific to describe #incarceration in great state of #Georgia...

    #DOJ released probe on conditions of #prisons in the state of #GA, which it said were "#inhumane" and in violation of the #USConstitution #EighthAmendment which prohibits #CruelAndUnusualPunishment

    US GOVT sez #GeorgiaPrisons ''deliberately indifferent'' to unchecked deadly #violence, widespread #druguse, #extortion and #SexualAbuse at state lockups...

    thehill.com/homenews/state-wat

  12. Writing for the majority, Justice Neil #Gorsuch said the problem of #homelessness is complex, but the #EighthAmendment “does not authorize federal judges to wrest those rights and responsibilities from the American people & in their place dictate this Nation’s homelessness policy.”
The decision returns the case to the lower courts, & it is not clear whether Grants Pass, OR will be able to enforce its #laws against #homeless individuals.
    supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pd

  13. In a 6-3 ruling, the court said #homelessness is not a status protected by the #EighthAmendment’s prohibition on #CruelAndUnusual punishment, even when a community offers #NoAccess to indoor #shelter for #HomelessPeople.

    So much for love thy neighbor

    #law #SCOTUS #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #HumanRights #SupremeCourt #AntiCamping #laws #PublicSpace #homeless

  14. 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

    supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pd

    #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #EighthAmendment #homeless #law #lawFedi #LawProf