Outside the Beltway

The very definition of a miscarriage of justice.

Edward Snowden has likely violated many laws, but, absent additional facts, treason is not one of them.

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

Less than a week after the bomb he planted at the Boston Marathon went off, Dzhokar Tsarnaev has been formally charged in Federal Court.

David Ranta spent 23 years in jail because of lying witnesses and corrupt police.

The Pentagon considers those killed by Nidal Hassan at Fort Hood three years ago victims of workplace violence, not terrorism.

American politics has been reduced to a charade where all people do is yell at each other.

..because apparently we can apply a modern definition of “arms” to the constitution, but not modern understandings of the word “citizens.”

Penn State was facing a four year suspension of its football program but worked out a less harsh punishment.

The NCAA more than lived up to the hype of “unprecedented” sanctions.

The cover-up at Penn State was, if anything, worse than we thought,.

What does the US Constitution actually provide in terms of guidance for governance?

Today, the Supreme Court decided that mandatory life sentences for juveniles violate the 8th Amendment.

There is no evidence that the Capital Punishment works.

The phrase “American Taliban” is usually off the mark. However, sometimes it is closer to the mark than we might like.

Innocent people have gone to jail, and some of them are still sitting there.

A man named Carlos killed a woman named Wanda Lopez. Texas executed a different man named Carlos for the crime.

If one has views that one will not change even in the face of the best case scenario for new data against those views, then one cannot claim to be an analyst.

Another death row inmate. Another case of prosecutorial misconduct from the office of Harry Connick, Sr.

Usually if a quote is too good to be true, it is.

Back in the late 90s, Newt wanted to execute marjiuana traffickers.

Is money the only thing that matters in post-Citizens United American politics?

Judging them by their own manifesto, the Occupy Wall Street protesters are pretty silly people.

Much of politics is visceral rather than intellectual.

Texas is ending the time-honored tradition of allowing condemned men to pick their last meal before being put to death.