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Is it an Equal Protection violation or a due process violation or an EighthAmendment violation to engage in punitive confinement before trial?
December 12, 2024 at 12:49 PM
snarky-op.bsky.social
#UnAmerican
#EighthAmendment
#DetentionIsNotSupposedToBePUNITIVE
July 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
lagunabeachdems.bsky.social
In Texas, even animal shelters have heat rules. Prisons holding 135,000 people do not. Two thirds have no AC, a judge ruled it unconstitutional, and a large number of people have died in the heat. Republicans refuse to pay for the fix. #TexasPrisons #EighthAmendment
CRUEL AND UNUSUAL TEXAS CAGES PEOPLE IN PRISONS WITH NO AC 2 IN 3 TEXAS PRISONS ARE NOT FULLY AIR CONDITIONED A federal judge ruled these conditions "plainly unconstitutional." Indoor temperatures can top 100 degrees, and dozens of people have died in the heat. The state holds roughly 135,000 people. Texas Republicans have refused to fund the fix for years, even as the courts call it unconstitutional. Source: Texas Tribune; CNN; U.S. District Court (Western District of Texas), 2025-2026 Laguna Beach Democratic Club
July 2, 2026 at 5:38 AM
carlnyberg312.bsky.social
The United States has been far too lackadaisical enforcing the #EighthAmendment.
Constitution of the United States Eighth Amendment Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
June 10, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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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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Federal Ruling Forces Georgia Prisons to Restore Transgender Medical Care - QnotesCarolinas.com
Federal judge blocks Georgia’s ban on gender-affirming care in prisons, ruling it unconstitutional and restoring access to hormone therapy.
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December 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
hunaria.bsky.social
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
aclu.org ACLU @aclu.org · Mar 17
We're headed to an emergency hearing today where the Trump administration must give details on what it did and did not do to implement a federal court’s orders.
March 18, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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ACLU fighting for America 💙

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#ACLU #TrumpAdministratiom #Immoral #Corrupt #Corruption #AgainstTheLaw #AgainstTheConstitution #TrumpAdmin #AlienEnemiesAct #AlienEnemiesActOf1798 #8thAmendment #EighthAmendment #Judge #CourtOrder #CourtOrders #Deportations #Venezuelans
aclu.org ACLU @aclu.org · Mar 18
UPDATE: After the Trump administration refused to answer the majority of the judge's questions, the judge has given the them until noon tomorrow to disclose more information on their understanding of the court order blocking deportations under the Alien Enemies Act.
aclu.org ACLU @aclu.org · Mar 17
We're headed to an emergency hearing today where the Trump administration must give details on what it did and did not do to implement a federal court’s orders.
March 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
scotusgate.bsky.social
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
January 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
homeless-new.bsky.social
#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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June 29, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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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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October 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
bigender-tomboy.bsky.social
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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November 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
hunaria.bsky.social
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
altnps.bsky.social Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Mar 12
Imagine this: On the evening of March 8, you and your spouse unlock the door to your apartment building. As you step inside, two men—not in uniform—push their way in behind you. They tell you your visa has been revoked and that they are there to deport you.
March 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
audioarguendo.bsky.social
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...
City of Grants Pass v. Johnson
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April 22, 2024 at 7:22 PM
carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social
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
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June 28, 2024 at 2:06 PM
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lulacWith federal migrant detention centers reaching maximum capacity across the US, the government is relying on private, for-profit facilities to hold migrants who are then exploited for their labor and forced to work or face serious consequences.#LULAC #ICEWatch #MigrantRights #EighthAmendment #FourteenthAmendment
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December 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
homeless-new.bsky.social
#OnThisDate, #SCOTUS reversed the #9thCircuit decision in #GrantsPassVJohnson and held that punishing people for being homeless when there are no available alternatives like housing or shelter does not violate their #EighthAmendment rights. 👎
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On This Date: June 28, 2024
#OnThisDate in 2024, the Supreme Court of the United States decided Grants Pass v. Johnson, 603 U.S. 520, holding that the enforcement of generally applicable laws regulating camping on public prop…
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June 29, 2026 at 6:01 AM
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#meltice #crushice #votebluenomatterwho #eighthamendment www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...
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September 4, 2026 at 10:34 PM
homeless-new.bsky.social
and the #SCOTUS held in #GrantsPassVJohnson that doing so does not constitute #CruelAndUnusualPunishment prohibited by the #EighthAmendment. 👎
September 3, 2026 at 12:57 AM
endfelonymurder.bsky.social
From the report "Justice in Less Than a Minute" in
@theappeal.org - attorneys state Oklahoma County (OK) bail hearings fail constitutional standards as they last less than a minute, skip defendant's ability to pay, and lack individual review.
#eighthamendment
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Justice in Less Than a Minute? Oklahoma County Bail Hearings Don’t Meet Constitutional Standards - The Appeal - Felony Murder Elimination Project
In the report "Justice in Less Than a Minute" featured in The Appeal, attorneys state that Oklahoma County bail hearings fail to meet constitutional standards because they last less than a minute, ski...
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July 29, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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FYI: Supreme Court Takes Up Alaska Case Over Seizure of Plane for Carrying Beer #SupremeCourt #Alaska #EighthAmendment #CivilRights #LegalNews
Supreme Court Takes Up Alaska Case Over Seizure of Plane for Carrying Beer
The justices will decide whether confiscating a bush pilot’s aircraft over a six-pack bound for a dry village violates the Eighth Amendment ban on excessive fines.
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July 26, 2026 at 8:52 PM
vineturglobal.bsky.social
Supreme Court Takes Up Alaska Case Over Seizure of Plane for Carrying Beer #SupremeCourt #EighthAmendment #Alaska #BushPilot #AircraftSeizure
Supreme Court Takes Up Alaska Case Over Seizure of Plane for Carrying Beer
The justices will decide whether confiscating a bush pilot’s aircraft over a six-pack bound for a dry village violates the Eighth Amendment ban on excessive fines.
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July 21, 2026 at 8:51 PM
homeless-new.bsky.social
#OnThisDate in 2024, #SCOTUS heard oral arguments in #GrantsPassVJohnson, on whether punishing people for being homeless when there are no available alternatives like housing or shelter violates the #EighthAmendment.
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April 23, 2026 at 3:46 AM
homeless-new.bsky.social
#OnThisDate in 2006, the US Court of Appeals for the #9thCircuit decided #JonesVLosAngeles, 444 F.3d 1120, finding that in the absence of available shelter, criminalizing “life-sustaining” conduct in public is in violation of #EighthAmendment rights.
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April 15, 2026 at 5:11 AM
jamesboecking.bsky.social
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
February 5, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Alabama Reflector:Alabama News Beacon #PrisonReform #CriminalJustice #EighthAmendment
How we reported “Blood Money”
The crisis inside the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) has generated extensive reporting on escalating prison violence and deaths, the proliferation of contraband drugs, and squalid conditions inside overcrowded and understaffed facilities. These factors led the U.S. Department of Justice to conclude Alabama prison conditions violate prisoners’ Eighth Amendment protections against cruel and unusual punishment, […]
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May 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM