Outside the Beltway

And yet the state still extracted their pound of flesh

A follow on from yesterday.

A wackadoodle colonel is on his way out.

The Biden administration’s mandate has been lifted immediately.

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

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 potentially more representative map that still underscores deep flaws in our system.

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.

Oklahoma’s near-total ban is part of a larger trend.

Democrats want the DOJ to act more quickly.

Concerns have been alleviated.

Does it matter whether she’s a rube or a mastermind?

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

Beyond who her spouse is, the texts to Meadows reveal a deeply concerning situation.

A new trial that might not have happened with a plea

A Supreme Court Justice’s wife urged the White House and Congressional Republicans to steal the 2020 election.

Parents of disabled kids have successfully sued to mandate masks in schools.

Comparing the careers of the sitting Justices with Judge Brown’s

The days of unanimous votes are long behind us.

If this is the best they have, they don’t have a lot

New evidence changes the story ever so slightly.

The convicted criminal has been released pending appeal.

The Russian leader is very unlikely to be hauled before the Hague.

Thomas gets the ball rolling, and I take off from there.

The Court is out of balance–and it is a design flaw.

A novel and persuasive argument.

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

Most people liked it more than I did.

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

The front-runner was indeed the pick

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

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

Surprisingly, yes.

The 45th President is unlikely to face Federal prosecution but state and civil suits are not going his way.

The bar for defaming public officials is too high.

Our system lacks accountability.

A protest against vaccine mandates is growing with a little help from our adversaries.

Former President Trump routinely broke the law with respect to protecting public records.

The infamous duo will have to do what they were already supposed to do for a year.

New Mexico Senator Ben Ray Luján is hospitalized with a stroke.

Did you know that the elephant population has tripled over the last six months?

A ginned up controversy regarding a border nature reserve has escalated.

Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion. Alas.

And yes, it is political (and always has been).

But from what? Comparing two stories from Tennessee that show our society’s contradictory impulses when it comes to “protecting the children.”

When “obviously qualified” apparently isn’t enough