Outside the Beltway

We know a lot less about the motives of spree killers than the public discourse suggests.

With her eyes on her political future in a GOP dominated by Trumpism, Nikki Haley is attempting to rewrite the history of one of the most significant events of her time as Governor of South Carolina.

Another white supremacist attack raises disturbing questions about our information environment.

Last week, the House passed two bills to strengthen the laws regarding background checks for guns, but they’re not likely to even make it to the floor of the Senate.

Later this week, the Supreme Court will hear a case that could rewrite decades of law interpreting the Fifth Amendment’s Double Jeopardy rule.

The man responsible for the deaths of eleven people in a Pittsburgh synagogue has been indicted on 44 counts by a Federal Grand Jury.

America’s tradition of unlimited free expression increases the danger of violence.

Next term, the Justices will revisit the issue of whether someone can be tried in state and Federal Court for the same crime for the first time in nearly sixty years.

Donald Trump may or may not be racist himself, but he has most certainly exploited and helped widen racial divisions ever since bursting on the political scene in 2015.

Stephen Paddock’s crime was clearly terrorizing, and will impact the lives of survivors, families, first responders in many ways for a long time. Based on the currently available evidence, though, the Las Vegas shooting was not “terrorism.”

With the exception of the mandatory Federal death penalty appeals, the legal process is basically over in the Charleston Church shootings.

Not surprisingly, Dylann Roof received a sentence of death for the murder of nine people at a historic African-American church.

To nobody’s surprise, Dylann Roof was convicted of the race-motivated murders in a Charleston church.

He has a fool for a client.

Now, the road to trial will move forward.

The Federal Judge presiding over Dylann Roof’s murder trial suggested late last week that Roof may not presently be competent to stand trial. This does not mean that he’ll be set free, though.

It won’t be a very good holiday season for Charleston Church shooter Dylann Roof.

Following in the footsteps of state prosecutors, Federal prosecutors have announced they will seek the death penalty for Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof.

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders clashed in the final debate before the Iowa Caucuses in the context of a race that has appeared to become tighter than it was before Christmas.

Five months after Charleston, Mississippi is still struggling to rid itself of symbols of the Confederacy.

In the wake of yesterday’s shootings in Oregon, President Obama took the airwaves to offer the same empty rhetoric he has on this issue in the past, and to make the false claim that there are simple solutions to what is a very complex problem.

Prosecutors in South Carolina announced that they will seek the death penalty for Charleston shooter Dylann Roof.

Dylann Roof has been indicted in Federal Court for completely unnecessary reasons.

Contrary to what Donald Trump claims, immigrants are less likely to commit crime than others.

New information in the Dylann Roof case shows that the background check system used for gun purchases is still prone to human error.

Finally.

The debate is ultimately academic.

It’s been obvious from the moment the news broke that the murders in Charleston were rooted in racism, but some Republicans have had trouble acknowledging that.

The murders in Charleston have revived a debate that should have been over a long time ago.

A word that has come in recent years to be used to refer chiefly to Muslim fanatics obviously applies to a man who murdered nine people because they’re black.

Nine people died overnight in a shooting at an historic African-American Church in Charleston, South Carolina.