It's the fifth attempt to gain approval of the amendment's language and ballot title from Attorney General Tim Griffin. Part ...

The Arkansas Attorney General has, for the first time, rejected a ballot title for a proposed constitutional amendment on the ...

On the same day LWV submitted their third proposal, they filed a lawsuit to block several new laws they say would "spell the death of direct democracy." ...

There is very strong public support for decentralising the High Court Division of the Supreme Court. As part of its work, the Constitution Reform Commission (CRC), through the Bangladesh Bureau of ...

The Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits this course of action. White House lawyers should read the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Trop v. Dulles.

Hibberd 8th-grader Taytem Rivera wrote her essay on birthright citizenship, explaining to the Pal-Item how the issue has ...

the Supreme Court ruled that inmates on death row could make last-minute claims that the chemicals in lethal injections are too painful and violate the Constitution's Eighth Amendment.

Rob Bresnahan supported a proposed amendment that would have added protections for a ... Bresnahan, a freshman GOP congressman representing Northeast Pennsylvania’s 8th Congressional District, has ...

Proposition 313 didn’t offer exemptions for teen victims forced by pimps to recruit, a violation of the 8th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution’s extreme punishment clause. And while this new ...

In 1987, President Zia-Ul-Haq engineered the 8th Amendment which gave the president (himself) sweeping powers to dismiss the National Assembly. In 1997, the 13th Amendment was passed during a ...

Bukola Saraki says the presidency under Buhari deliberately frustrated efforts of the 8th National Assembly to pass ...