FEDERAL CIRCUIT judge wants the Supreme Court to scrap a longstanding test for determining what is cruel and unusual punishment. In an October speech to the Federalist Society, Reuters reported, Judge Thomas Hardiman, appointed by President George W. Bush to the Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, advocated a “ return to the text and original meaning of the Eighth Amendment” and an end to the “evolving standards of decency” test created
Devolving Standards of Decency
Dec 21, 2023
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