Outside the Beltway

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.

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

Just when I think I’m out, they pull me back in again… [update: x2]

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!”

It’s complicated, hard to prove, and politically fraught.

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

Some new data are encouraging.

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

Shocking but perhaps unsurprising news.

An already awful system on steroids.

Police and the Punisher Skull

Oh, and committed insurance fraud to boot.

A group of extremists are stopped from instigating a riot.

Some thoughts.

Donald Trump and friends speak to the NRA.

It doesn’t appear the Uvalde TX police were underfunded

An example of security theater with proven negative social impacts

Tragedy has played out so often that it has become a statistic.

Assumptions of racial animus are overshadowing a story that’s outrageous enough on its own.

And yet the state still extracted their pound of flesh

An extraordinary example shines light on coercive factors that incentivize plea deals

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.

Democrats want the DOJ to act more quickly.

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

A new trial that might not have happened with a plea

New evidence changes the story ever so slightly.

The convicted criminal has been released pending appeal.

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.

Manhattan’s new DA seems to think he has a weak case.

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

Why clearing criminal records makes economic sense