Outside the Beltway

Getting an impartial jury in an internationally-famous case is next to impossible.

The Supreme Court justice least concerned with precedent wants to overturn a longstanding one.

Rudy may not be a very good lawyer…

Don’t believe everything you see on TV.

No, he can’t get up to 75 years.

They were “disrespectful to the rule of law.”

The latest variant of the “No Justice, No Peace” threat is unhelpful.

Rogue cops, racial profiling, tainted cases, and the lack of consequences.

The law is out of sync with modern realities.

It’s seemingly just a matter of time before recreational use is allowed throughout the United States.

The Free State may have gotten just a little freer.

We need to rethink traffic stops.

A quirk in our system combined with shrewd gamesmanship will give them unprecedented power.

Fulfilling a campaign promise and keeping the discussion alive.

My home state has become the first in the South to join the trend.

Is a de minimus standard too small?

Overruling every case President Trump was involved in is getting silly.

A criminal trial is a poor venue for solving society’s problems.

Elected officials should not comment on ongoing legal proceedings.

When the solution is worse than the problem.

He probably lacks the legal authority. And business interests in is state will fight hard against him.

A loon wolf terrorist who followed Louis Farrakhan was responsible.

There’s a right way and a wrong way to improve the system.

Judges are pressuring prosecutors to strike deals, most of which will be for misdemeanors.

The 6th Circuit is allowing a professor fired for misgendering a transwoman to sue his state university.

Here we go again.

The U.S. Senators and a U.S. Representative beg to differ.

A mass shooting in Atlanta draws attention to a problem of which I was only tangentially aware.

Also some ironic positions on capitalism.

Democrats are already jockeying to influence President Biden’s pick should a vacancy arise.

The Supreme Court refused to block a lower court order.

The man most famous for getting screwed out of a Supreme Court seat has a more interesting backstory.

The distance in accountability between the highest and the lowest must be shortened.

How should we balance public health and fundamental rights?

AOC v. MTG: one of these things is not like the other.

The bane of the Trump presidency is already thwarting President Biden.

The legal debates are unsettled but we can all agree that Rand Paul is a moron.

A legally correct but maddening ruling.

You can’t make this stuff up.

In the words of Roseanne Roseannadanna, “Never mind.”

Some of the Capitol rioters were much more dangerous than others.

The GOP will almost certainly survive. But in what form?

A one-time denizen of Blogger’s Row at CPAC has come a long way.

There’s a word for people who use outrageous violence to terrorize.

A large, well-trained police force was unprepared for a foreseeable crisis.

The predictable, indeed inevitable, has happened.

Although prosecution and conviction are unlikely.