President Donald Trump scored a major legal victory earlier this week. A New York appeals court ruled that a civil $464 million commercial fraud penalty against him and the Trump real estate empire was unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment. The penalty was unconstitutionally excessive.

Still, the commercial fraud finding stands. Further appeals will follow.

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The decision is a welcome win for the rule of law. The ruling is also a clear rebuke of New York Attorney General Letitia James, who ran for the office of state attorney general with the campaign pledge to bring down Trump. She said on numerous occasions that Trump was an illegitimate president.

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