In my newly released New York Times bestselling book, Breaking the Law , I made the case that the nearly-$500 million fined imposed on Donald Trump by Judge Arthur Engeron in Letitia “Tish” James’s civil fraud case was a cruel and unusual punishment.

Today, we learned that a panel of five judges in New York’s mid-level Appellate Division believed that the fine imposed on Trump was “excessive,” i.e. it violated the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution.

As I noted in Breaking the Law :

Trump was always going to lose (are you beginning to notice the pattern?), given the Democrat AG, the Democrat judge, and the absence of a jury. The brunt of the penalty for the victimless crime would be financial. Engoron and James came up with a number so obscene it reads like a joke: $354.8 m

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