Outside the Beltway

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.

This is as close as we get to Garland saying “Eff around, find out!”

It’s complicated, hard to prove, and politically fraught.

Tell us you don’t know anything about Federal Warrants without telling us you don’t know anything about Federal Warrants

The former President and his supporters are crying “weaponization of the justice system.”

Some new data are encouraging.

Some 4500 tip line reports were simply turned over to the White House and not investigated further.

A loudmouth III%er cried like a baby during his sentencing.

A theory floated in Bush v Gore could radically change American elections.

States emboldened by Dobbs are testing just how far the Supreme Court will let them go.

Shocking but perhaps unsurprising news.

The symbolic vote attracted a handful of Republican votes.

An already awful system on steroids.

When belief is more important than facts

Police and the Punisher Skull

The law is behind the times.

Oh, and committed insurance fraud to boot.

Who should have the final say on the law of the land?

An absurd extension of the fight over abortion.