Outside the Beltway

Cesar Sayoc, the man who started a panic in October when he sent apparent explosive devices to a number of President Trump’s critics, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison

Less than twelve hours after the mass shooting in Texas, another one occurred overnight in Dayton, Ohio.

Another day, another mass shooting and, as is becoming all too common in this country, this one appears to have been racially motivated.

While much of the talk about Robert Mueller’s testimony has focused on the Trump campaign, there was another part to his testimony that brings attention to a far more serious threat.

Detroit shows how modern technology can lead to a virtual police state.

Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was formally charged with multiple counts of procuring underage girls for sexual molestation.

Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire investor previously charged with sex crimes involving minors, has been charged with sex trafficking involving minors.

A Florida Woman is being charged with felony burglary after breaking into her estranged husband’s apartment to seize his guns and give them to the police.

Texas has become the latest state to eliminate red-light cameras amid increasing evidence that they are largely counterproductive.

Congressman Duncan Hunter Jr’s defense of campaign law violations against him suffered a big setback yesterday when his wife and co-Defendant entered into a plea agreement with prosecutors.

Scot Peterson, the school resource officer who hid from fire during last year’s school shooting in Florida has been charged criminally. The legal basis for those charges seems flimsy.

Further progress for advocates of marijuana legalization from the Land of Lincoln.

Last week, New Hampshire became the latest state to repeal the death penalty. Thus becoming the 21st state to do so.

A dozen people died late yesterday in a workplace shooting at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center.

The Democratic frontrunner is being wrongly blamed for an explosion in the prison population.

Stan Lee’s former business manager has been arrested on charges that he used his influence over the late Marvel Comics founder to divert funds and alienate Lee from his family in his final months of life.

In the latest development in the child sex abuse investigations in the Catholic Church in the United States, five former Priests in Michigan have been arrested on sex abuse charges.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been indicted on seventeen counts under the Espionage Act arising out of his role in the Chelsea Manning affair.

John Walker Lindh, the so-called “American Taliban,” has been released from prison but the war in which he was captured goes merrily along.

Michael Avenatti, the former attorney for Stormy Daniels who briefly flirted with the idea of running for President, has been charged with multiple counts of fraud and other charges, some of them in connection with his representation of Daniels herself.

The way the Navy and Congress have handled this has been abysmal.

In a first of its kind move, voters in Denver have voted to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms.

Sexual misconduct in the military continues to frustrate observers.

This is my shocked face.

A cautious analyst makes a strong claim.

In military justice Bizarroland, Rep Duncan Hunter intentionally commits “reverse UCI.”

Sanders’ position on felon voting is logical, yet politically suicidal.

A Federal Appeals Court has rejected Chelsea Manning’s bid to be released from jail notwithstanding her refusal to comply with a Grand Jury Subpoena.

The other shoe has dropped.

California Governor Gavin Newsome may have put the issue front and center for 2020.

As many states contemplate restoring voting rights to felons who have completed their sentence, a leading Democrat wants to go further.

The Justice Department has issued a damning report.

The replacement of Anthony Kennedy with Brett Kavanaugh is already having a significant impact.

The Lawfare gang and Popehat weigh in.

“His sexual needs were his sexual needs.” And, you know, criminal.

Minutes after a Federal judge added 43 months to his sentence, New York state prosecutors unsealed an indictment that could yield another 7 years.

An over-the-top police response to a non-violent offense.

Actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman are the most famous of dozens of rich folks trying to get their kids into elite schools.

The relatively light sentence that Paul Manafort received is raising eyebrows. Hopefully it will lead to a long-overdue debate on sentencing reform.

Chelsea Manning is in jail for refusing to comply with a Grand Jury subpoena apparently related to an ongoing investigation of Julian Assange and Wikileaks.

Paul Manafort walked into court yesterday facing the possibility of 20 years in prison. He came away with a much better outcome.

Michael Cohen, the President’s former lawyer and “fixer,” is set to deliver several bombshells in his testimony before Congress today.

Cardinal George Pell, the top Catholic Cleric in Australia, has been convicted of sexually abusing boys in the 1990s.

After a decade of using the alleged problem of “voter fraud” to justify things like Voter ID Laws, Republicans are remarkably silent in the fact of an actual example of fraud and election tampering.

Actor Jussie Smollett is charged with staging an attack initially called a “hate crime.”

A Coast Guard officer and aspiring domestic terrorist was arrested late yesterday for plotting to kill Democratic politicians and members of the media.

Roger Stone is being ordered to Court after an Instagram post that appears to be a direct threat against the Judge presiding over his criminal case.

The shooter who killed five people in a factory in Illinois on Friday should not have had a gun to begin with.

The ignominious saga of Anthony Weiner appears to have reached its end.

Pope Francis defrocked former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick after decades of allegations of abuse of young boys and seminarians.