Outside the Beltway

At what point does negligence become a crime?

A free panel on how transparent social media platforms should be about government requests

A pending Supreme Court ruling could be more impactful than many realize.

One of these is not like the other.

Just like Trump’s except for every important detail.

An example of why its a good idea to wait for data before making policy decisions.

What a too-good-too-be-true story shows us about the modern news business.

The Supreme Court may revisit a controversial criminal justice ruling.

Facial recognition technology and its uses.

The ball is now in Merrick Garland’s court.

The January 6 Committee is expected to make a minimum of three referrals.

Kate Brown has left a parting gift for the state’s worst criminals.

The late Chief Justice was right; his successors are wrong.

The years-long NYC investigation finally bears some fruit.

A watershed moment in the prosecutions of the Capitol Rioters.

The Attorney General can’t please everyone, so he’s got to please himself.

The holiday week of photos from DC continues.

New details are emerging about possible motivations.

You know, Russia, Russia, Russia.

This one at the University of Virginia.

An interesting wrinkle in the 2024 race.

The Justice Department is looking to inoculate itself against charges of partisanship.

The attack at the Pelosi house should surprise no one.

Another frivolous suit making a mockery of the American tort system.

He remains free pending appeal.

Opponents lose at the district and SCOTUS level in opening salvos.

The former President knowingly signed a false affidavit in support of the Big Lie.

Three-and-a-half years and almost 6 million tax dollars have produced nothing.

The court, rightly, punted the issue to Congress and local leaders.

Another example of the arbitrariness of the death penaly

The class photo has changed.

The term that kicks off today could undermine our entire system of government.

Georgia Republicans didn’t violate the Constitution or the Voting Rights Act.

A new book raises fundamental questions about how far journalistic objectivity should extend.

Makin’ his way the only way he knows how, that’s just a little bit more than the law will allow.

The Pentagon’s Inspector General is “concerned” over the pace of rejections.

The Department of Justice takes an utterly unsurprising, but important step in the Mar-a-lago document case

The former president shopped for the right judge.

Roberts may not like it, but SCOTUS is political and does have a legitimacy problem.

I warned you all, my predictions are notoriously wrong.

Both sides have had their say and now we wait for a ruling.

Just when I think I’m out, they pull me back in again… [update: x2]

I mean, really, really, really bad for the former President and his legal team.

It appears that the DOJ has enough evidence to indict someone.

As more details emerge about the documents he stole, defenders are falling away.

Why would the Trump team release a document that casts them in such a bad light?

Is it time to call the whole thing off?

While enormous, the commander-in-chief’s control over state secrets is not absolute.

Running down the latest “known knowns” with just a bit of analysis

That’s some catch, that Catch-22.