Outside the Beltway

The January 6 Committee is expected to make a minimum of three referrals.

It would be an abuse of power.

The man is a dangerous nut.

The will of the majority can prevail even in a skewed system.

A watershed moment in the prosecutions of the Capitol Rioters.

The Attorney General can’t please everyone, so he’s got to please himself.

The Justice Department is looking to inoculate itself against charges of partisanship.

He remains free pending appeal.

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.

An unsavory practice that’s mostly legal.

He’s using a tool he denounced as cruel to deal with a humanitarian crisis.

A dramatic if likely symbolic move.

Makin’ his way the only way he knows how, that’s just a little bit more than the law will allow.

I warned you all, my predictions are notoriously wrong.

Both sides have had their say and now we wait for a ruling.

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.

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!”

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

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

Meeting with people who are essentially couplotters should be disqualifying.

What is the right measure of success for the Committee investigating the Capitol riot?

New evidence gets us a wee bit closer to a smoking gun.

You’re goddamn right he did.

Here we go again . . . .

The laying out of the case begins.

The retired general and think tank president is in hot water.

An unprecedented manuever in response to unprecedented obstruction.

Did we not already know this?

The Biden administration’s mandate has been lifted immediately.

Whether deliberate or another ‘gaffe,’ he’s likely right.

A former Virginia police officer has been found guilty, partly on the testimony of a former colleague.

A Michigan jury believed the FBI created the crime.

A key planner of the Capitol riot has agreed to testify against others in exchange for a lighter sentence.

Two hundred-odd people have pled or been found guilty. One has been acquitted.

The US conducted a preemptive strike against the GRU’s systems.

Democrats want the DOJ to act more quickly.

His conversations with lawyers about stealing the election are not protected by privilege.

New evidence changes the story ever so slightly.

A novel and persuasive argument.

The former President should have known that his claims of election fraud were baseless.

Two notorious cases indicate a policy shift on federal prosecutions of cases already tried in lower courts.

An example of how lack of regulation leads to practices that damage public faith in policing

With choices like these it’s easy to understand why people take plea deals

Because of course he did.