Outside the Beltway

The vultures keep circling above the head of “America’s Mayor.”

An inexcusable assault on an utterly defenseless African-American teenager.

One of Donald Trump”s closest associates has been convicted by a Federal jury.

As the impeachment proceedings move forward, Democrats are shifting their focus to a specific, and powerful, charge.

The officer involved in the shooting death of a woman in Fort Worth, Texas has been charged with murder.

Another police shooting of an innocent African-American. This time in Fort Worth, Texas.

Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani is under criminal investigation by the same office he once headed as U.S. Attorney.

Two associates of President Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani were arrested on their way out of the country, and the question is what connection Giuliani may have to the reasons behind their arrest.

After an emotional sentencing hearing that included an extraordinary display of mercy and forgiveness from her victim’s family, former Dallas Police Officer Amber Guyger was sentenced to ten years in prison.

Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger was convicted of ,murder in the death of Botham Jean, an innocent man who was murdered for the “crime” of being in his own apartment.

Congressman Chris Collins, an early supporter of President Trump’s, will be pleading guilty to insider trading charges.

The real crime is what’s legal.

The effort to bring Catholic Church officials to justice for their decades of criminal conspiracy and child abuse continues to move forward.

Another nonsense ruling on an issue that doesn’t belong in court to begin with.

From the State of Alabama we get a perfect example of the reason why, at times, the law is an ass.

A Florida jury has convicted a man involved in an argument over a parking space of manslaughter, rejecting his attempt to invoke the state’s ‘stand your ground’ law

We may have the first known case of a crime committed in space.

More than five years after the fact, the NYPD officer who applied an illegal chokehold that resulted in the death of Eric Garner has finally been fired.

Confirming the original diagnosis, Jeffrey Epstein’s death last weekend has been ruled a suicide.

Jeffrey Epstein’s death by suicide has led to many legitimate questions that should be investigated. It has also led to the rise of a number of baseless conspiracy theories.

Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire financier who was arrested earlier this summer on sex trafficking and abuse charges, has died of what appears to be a suicide in his jail cell.

Cesar Sayoc, the man who started a panic in October when he sent apparent explosive devices to a number of President Trump’s critics, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison

Less than twelve hours after the mass shooting in Texas, another one occurred overnight in Dayton, Ohio.

Another day, another mass shooting and, as is becoming all too common in this country, this one appears to have been racially motivated.

While much of the talk about Robert Mueller’s testimony has focused on the Trump campaign, there was another part to his testimony that brings attention to a far more serious threat.

Detroit shows how modern technology can lead to a virtual police state.

Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was formally charged with multiple counts of procuring underage girls for sexual molestation.

Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire investor previously charged with sex crimes involving minors, has been charged with sex trafficking involving minors.

A Florida Woman is being charged with felony burglary after breaking into her estranged husband’s apartment to seize his guns and give them to the police.

Texas has become the latest state to eliminate red-light cameras amid increasing evidence that they are largely counterproductive.

Congressman Duncan Hunter Jr’s defense of campaign law violations against him suffered a big setback yesterday when his wife and co-Defendant entered into a plea agreement with prosecutors.

Scot Peterson, the school resource officer who hid from fire during last year’s school shooting in Florida has been charged criminally. The legal basis for those charges seems flimsy.

Further progress for advocates of marijuana legalization from the Land of Lincoln.

Last week, New Hampshire became the latest state to repeal the death penalty. Thus becoming the 21st state to do so.

A dozen people died late yesterday in a workplace shooting at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center.

The Democratic frontrunner is being wrongly blamed for an explosion in the prison population.

Stan Lee’s former business manager has been arrested on charges that he used his influence over the late Marvel Comics founder to divert funds and alienate Lee from his family in his final months of life.

In the latest development in the child sex abuse investigations in the Catholic Church in the United States, five former Priests in Michigan have been arrested on sex abuse charges.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been indicted on seventeen counts under the Espionage Act arising out of his role in the Chelsea Manning affair.

John Walker Lindh, the so-called “American Taliban,” has been released from prison but the war in which he was captured goes merrily along.

Michael Avenatti, the former attorney for Stormy Daniels who briefly flirted with the idea of running for President, has been charged with multiple counts of fraud and other charges, some of them in connection with his representation of Daniels herself.

The way the Navy and Congress have handled this has been abysmal.

In a first of its kind move, voters in Denver have voted to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms.

Sexual misconduct in the military continues to frustrate observers.

This is my shocked face.

A cautious analyst makes a strong claim.

In military justice Bizarroland, Rep Duncan Hunter intentionally commits “reverse UCI.”

Sanders’ position on felon voting is logical, yet politically suicidal.

A Federal Appeals Court has rejected Chelsea Manning’s bid to be released from jail notwithstanding her refusal to comply with a Grand Jury Subpoena.

The other shoe has dropped.