Outside the Beltway

A comparison of the two texts.

Wisconsin’s 1849 abortion ban may or may not be back in effect.

Concerned no more, Senator Collins is now dismayed that she was misled.

The leaked draft is now the law of the land.

A rather bizarre coda to yesterday’s big Supreme Court decision.

The 6-3 ruling broke down on predictable lines.

The longest-serving Supreme Court Justice is a nice guy.

A group of extremists are stopped from instigating a riot.

A man who claims he was going to kill the Supreme Court Justice is in jail.

Some thoughts.

A slim majority upheld an injunction, kicking the can down the road.

What does it all mean? It depends on who you ask.

Are we too regulated for our own good?

Or are they?

Donald Trump and friends speak to the NRA.

“Protect and Serve” is just a slogan, not a guarantee.

Despite their military trappings and propaganda, they’re seldom heroes.

It doesn’t appear the Uvalde TX police were underfunded

An example of security theater with proven negative social impacts

She advocated that AZ overturn its election.

Very little progress has been made towards racial justice.

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.

Susan Collins and other Senators claiming otherwise are just wrong.

Is harassing judges, mayors, Senators, and the like in their private lives just free speech?

Not so conservative.

In other news, there’s gambling going on at Casablanca.

At least not right away. But it’s quite possible by 2040.

The 45th President was a psychopath.

The role of American political institutions.

The apparently eminent demise of abortion rights has reignited an old debate.

The Senator from Maine once against demonstrates that she shouldn’t be prognosticating about people’s future actions.

POLITICO has obtained what purports to be the 1st draft of the opinion.

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