A trio of legal experts is warning that the Trump Department of Justice is asserting that the president has unprecedented ...

No Bill of Attainder...shall be passed. The Constitution prohibits both the federal government (in this clause) and the states (in Article I, Section 10, Clause 1) from passing either bills of ...

No State shall...pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law.... The Framers regarded bills of attainder and ex post facto laws as so offensive to liberty that they prohibited their use by both ...

His executive orders test a constitutional limit on government’s power of punishment.

On April 8, 27 policy and intelligence professionals filed an amicus brief supporting Perkins Coie in suing the Trump ...

Trump’s use of Executive Orders to punish specific law firms are reminiscent of early, modern England’s bills of pains and penalties, which were patterned after bills of attainder that are ...