Alabama’s execution of Anthony Boyd using nitrogen gas as a method of capital punishment has raised national concern over the use of the method, with witnesses describing the execution as “difficult-to-watch” and the US Supreme Court declining to intervene.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor condemned the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to stay the execution of Anthony Boyd, who was put to death in Alabama using nitrogen gas, calling it “torturous suffocation” and a violation of the Eighth Amendment’s guarantee against cruel and unusual punishment.
UC Davis law professors Vikram David Amar and Alan E. Brownstein published an analysis of the Supreme Court’s decision in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, which allowed ICE to use race and other demographic factors in selecting individuals for immigration investigation, and criticized Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s opinion for relying on the controversial Los Angeles v. Lyons decision and for equating race with other demographic factors.
The Supreme Court took hard right turns in major First Amendment cases, but also sided with civil-rights plaintiffs and criminal defendants in lower-profile cases, and overrode lower courts to let Trump administration policies proceed.
The Supreme Court’s ruling in Trump v. CASA, Inc. has significantly weakened judicial checks on presidential power, allowing President Trump’s contested executive order limiting birthright citizenship to begin taking effect in many parts of the country.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Ruben Gutierrez, a man sentenced to death in Texas, can move forward with a federal civil rights lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the state’s DNA testing procedures.
The Trump administration’s proposed actions to send immigrants to El Salvador or Libya without legal recourse violate the Constitution and due process, and could potentially affect U.S. citizens as well.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Supreme Court refused to review Lance Shockley’s death sentence in late March,…
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the federal government illegally deported a Salvadoran man, delivering a strong rebuke to Trump immigration tactics and reminding the executive that discretion must remain within the bounds of law.
In a sharply divided decision with significant implications for due process and the right to appeal, the…
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