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Nielsen v. Preap

Updated:
October 2, 2018
Whether the government can require that certain people are detained for the duration of their deportation proceedings — without a hearing — because they have past criminal records.

Timbs v. Indiana

Updated:
September 19, 2018
Whether the Eighth Amendment’s Excessive Fines Clause is incorporated against the States, and therefore prohibits not only federal, but also state and local, fines, fees and forfeitures that are excessive. …

Gamble v. United States

Updated:
September 12, 2018
Whether the “dual-sovereignty” exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause—whereby a state and the federal government can each prosecute a person for the same crime, even where neither would be able to do so alone…

Gundy v. United States

Updated:
June 2, 2018
Whether it violates the separation of powers for Congress to delegate to the Attorney General, the nation’s chief prosecutor, the unfettered authority both to decide whether a criminal law should apply and to…

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