Outside the Beltway

The Lawfare Podcast: Read With Me: The Trump Indictment.

Asset forfeiture may finally get reined in.

An unintended consequence of the drug trade.

What’s more important, appearances or action?

Shut it down for the day, because it isn’t going to get better than this one.

An extremely unlikely scenario.

When a go-to “nonpartisan” defender breaks rank does that change your opinion?

We’re in uncharted waters.

This time, it’s the feds.

A Brooklyn neighborhood is experimenting with a hybrid approach.

The stiffest punishment yet for a January 6 seditionist.

Seems about right.

The punishments are increasing as the worst of the worst are sentenced.

The worst of the worst Capitol Riot players have been brought to justice.

International law enforcement agencies have made hundreds of arrests.

A few people are committing the lion’s share of petty thefts in America’s biggest city.

An outrageous political stunt.

Legal analysts are skeptical.

It has begun.

Calls for violence have been widespread but are unlikely to be heeded.

And so it begins?

Donald Trump is apparently not the only one with a fetish for war criminals.

Balancing the public’s desire to know and the potential for harm is not easy.

The Manhattan DA could move as early as next week.

The Russian leader’s status as an international pariah is cemented.

The Baretta actor and acquitted murderer is dead at 89.

“Classical liberals” really need to rediscover self examination

Some Democrats are angry!

Politics and justice are in tension.

The jury forewoman is offering hints.

Why was it released to the public?

At what point does negligence become a crime?

One of these is not like the other.

An example of why its a good idea to wait for data before making policy decisions.

What a too-good-too-be-true story shows us about the modern news business.

The ball is now in Merrick Garland’s court.

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

Kate Brown has left a parting gift for the state’s worst criminals.

The years-long NYC investigation finally bears some fruit.

A watershed moment in the prosecutions of the Capitol Rioters.

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

New details are emerging about possible motivations.

You know, Russia, Russia, Russia.

This one at the University of Virginia.

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

The attack at the Pelosi house should surprise no one.

He remains free pending appeal.

Another example of the arbitrariness of the death penaly

The Department of Justice takes an utterly unsurprising, but important step in the Mar-a-lago document case

I warned you all, my predictions are notoriously wrong.