Outside the Beltway

The Supreme Court says that police who have a “reasonable” misunderstanding of the law can still pull you over.

Vice-President Cheney’s amoral defense of torture has come to define how most conservatives view the issue, and that’s a problem.

A hostage crisis has been unfolding overnight at a cafe in Sydney, Australia that has apparent links to international terrorism.

The Justice Department won’t force James Risen to testify in a legal investigation, but faces a new choice in a different case.

Unlike Ray Rice, Adrian Peterson has lost his bid to have his suspension overturned.

The budget bill Congress set to pass Congress would effectively reverse the will of the voters of Washington, D.C., who just voted to legalize marijuana.

Apparently, law schools are in the business of coddling their special snowflake children now.

What now?

Chris Rock wants us to remember that Bill Cosby isn’t the only celebrity accused of rape.

The Court holds that Federal Law does not require employees to be paid for the time waiting to get through mandatory security screening.

Many have suggested that prosecution of cases involving police misconduct should be handled by prosecutors who don’t work with local police departments on a regular basis. They’re right.

The Supreme Court is set to decide if the state can deny a license plate with the Confederate flag design because it is “offensive.”

For the fourth time in three years, a Federal Court has ruled that Florida’s law requiring drug tests for welfare recipients is unconstitutional.

How will Republicans react if, as many expect, the Supreme Court legalizes same-sex marriage across the nation?

Thinking about that the state, law, violence, and the Garner incident (and contributing to the tl;dr phenomenon).

Yet another example of the need for context when discussing stats.

Not surprisingly a new poll finds that African-Americans perceive the American justice system far differently than whites.

But, hey, don’t worry, there’s nothing racial going on here. Nothing at all.

An utter journalistic failure from Rolling Stone.

While conservatives have been generally as appalled as others with the news out of Staten Island, some of them are looking in the wrong place for blame.

Texas has joined with 16 other states in a lawsuit against the Obama Administration over the President’s executive action on immigration. At first glance, it doesn’t appear to have much legal merit.

A former RNC chair says a black man’s life isn’t worth a ham sandwich.

A New York City Grand Jury refuses to indict a cop who appears from all available evidence to choked a guy to death for no good reason.

Michael Brown’s stepfather made incendiary comments in the wake of the Grand Jury announcement, but they do not amount to a crime.

The next President will have a profound ability to shape the future of the Supreme Court, but that is unlikely to be the most important issue on voters minds in 2016.

The U.S. Government is looking for lawyers willing to work for free.

The man who shot and killed Michael Brown has resigned, but that’s unlikely to satisfy protesters who still seem to be demanding criminal charges that are never going to come.

In a slap to the face of the N.F.L. and Commissioner Roger Goodell, an arbitrator has overturned the indefinite suspension that was imposed on former Ravens Running Back Ray Rice back in September.

Next week, the Supreme Court will be asked to determine the line between free speech online and criminal threats

Regardless of the outcome of the Michael Brown investigation, there are legitimate problems that need to be addressed.

The House of Representatives has filed its lawsuit against the President. As expected, it doesn’t amount to much.

Not surprisingly, last night’s announcement that there would be no state court indictment in the Michael Brown shooting led to violence and confrontations with police. That’s not going to solve any of the real problems that face Ferguson, or any other community in the United States.

A not unexpected decision from the Grand Jury that investigated the Michael Brown shooting.

Once again, a Federal Judge has barred New Jersey’s effort to legalize sports betting based on Federal law. it’s time for the Federal Government to get out of the way on this issue.

On a preliminary examination, the President’s executive action on immigration appears to be within the boundaries of applicable law. However, as with other exercises of Executive Branch authority, it raises some important concerns about the precedent that it sets.

The Office of Legal Counsel told the president Wednesday he couldn’t do what he did on Thursday.

In the end, there appears to be very little, if anything, the GOP can do to stop or roll back the executive actions the President will announce Thursday evening.

Based on the available evidence, there’s very little evidence that Voter ID laws had a significant impact on the midterm elections.

A 69-year-old former polygraph examiner for the Oklahoma City police department has been indicted for coaching people to thwart the machines.

All the warnings of violence in the wake of an expected imminent announcement from the Grand Jury in the Michael brown case could become self-fulfilling prophecy.

Every member of the Supreme Court graduated from an Ivy League Law School. That kind of homogeneity is not healthy.

The process that seems likely to lead to a Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage has begun.