Outside the Beltway

What possible value would it have almost four decades after the fact that justifies expending not inconsiderable taxpayer resources?

Yesterday, the Supreme Court narrowly decided a case on the right against self-incrimination that is likely to do great harm to individual rights.

Did President Obama’s comments about taking a tough stand on military sexual assault constitute “undue influence” on specific cases? One military judge says that they did.

Starting today, the fate of Pfc. Bradley Manning is on trial in a courtroom at Fort Meade, Maryland.

Another body blow to the Fourth Amendment from the Supreme Court.

Eric Holder’s testimony before Congress is leading to accusations of perjury, but the argument that he did so seem pretty weak.

New developments in a still very new area of the law.

It’s time to take a look at the pre-trial issues in what is likely to be the trial of the Summer of 2013.

A case in Florida raises serious questions about the application of our sex offender laws.

Homicide rates are on pace to be lower than they were at the start of the 20th Century.

Debunking a conservative myth that has arisen in connection the Benghazi story.

The reality of gun violence in the United States is far different from the story the media is telling us.

New questions about the interrogation of the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect.

Opponents of immigration reform are deceptively attempting to use the bombing attack in Boston to derail immigration reform.

Some on the right are complaining that Dzhokar Tsarnaev was read his Mranda rights too soon.