Outside the Beltway

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.

Another woman has accused President Trump of sexually assaulting her some 20 years ago.

If Hong Kong’s leaders thought protesters would be satisfied with relatively minor concessions, they have significantly miscalculated the situation.

In the wake of massive protests, Hong Kong’s government begins to back away from support for a controversial extradition bill.

Beginning tomorrow in a British courtroom, the United States will begin the process of having Julian Assange extradited to the United States to face espionage and other charges.

Protests in Hong Kong as police unleashed tear gas on protesters and authorities delayed a vote on a controversial extradition law.

Protesters flooded the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday over proposed change to the city’s extradition laws.

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.

Strong public records laws, not an excess of weirdness, has driven a sad meme.

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

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

A Virginia Judge has ruled that automated license plate collection systems violate state law.

A Federal Appeals Court recently found that chalking the tires of a car parked in a public place is a violation of the Fourth Amendment. It’s not at all clear that this decision is correct.

Blasts at Christian churches and tourist hotels appear to be a coordinated terrorist attack.

The esteemed biographer on his process.

Another white supremacist attack raises disturbing questions about our information environment.

The President’s latest ravings are “very bad, very bad.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is being charged with three charges of corruption even as he faces an election in just over a month.

Gun laws requiring guns to be taken away from convicted felons are either being ignored or have too many loopholes. We need to fix that.

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

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

The New Hampshire Supreme Court rejected a challenge by three women to their prosecution for going topless on a public beach in the Granite State.

The situation in Venezuela entered a new stage yesterday as opposition leader Juan Guaidó claimed the nation’s Presidency.

For the first tine in nearly ten years, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving Second Amendment rights.

A Chicago police officer convicted of second-degree murder has been sentenced to seven years in prison, but could be out in as little as three-and-a-half.

Washington State has a problem with people stealing “Mile 420” signs, so they’ve come up with a solution.

Nancy Pelosi is Speaker of The House again after eight years out of power, but there’s little time for her to celebrate.

A Federal Judge has ruled that neither the Sheriff’s Office nor the School Board had a specific duty to protect individual students during the shooting last February in Parkland, Florida.

A fifty-year-old song is getting new scrutiny in the wake of the #MeToo movement.

Protests that have killed four and injured hundreds have been rewarded and show no sign of ending.

American troops have been in Afghanistan for seventeen years now, it’s time to bring them all home.

Former Dallas police office Amber Guyger has been charged with murder in connection with the September shooting of Botham Jean in his own apartment.

The Supreme Court appears ready to impose at least some limits on civil asset forfeiture at the state level.

A bad look for all concerned.

The man responsible for the deaths of eleven people in a Pittsburgh synagogue has been indicted on 44 counts by a Federal Grand Jury.

Overwhelmingly, legal experts agree that President Trump is wrong about birthright citizenship and the Fourteenth Amendment.

Charges have been filed against the man responsible for the massacre in Pittsburgh in both Federal and State court.

At least eight people are dead in a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue.

Four suspicious packages addressed to prominent political and media figures have been intercepted in the past three days.

Scenes from the war on drugs.

Another example of just how imperfect our system of justice can be.

The evidence that Saudi Arabia murdered Washington Post columnist and American Permanent resident Jamal Khashoggi appears to be incontrovertible.

Last Tuesday, Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi visited the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to obtain a document he needed. He hasn’t been seen since.

Nearly four years after the fact, a Chicago Police Officer has been found guilty of murder in the shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.

Amber Guyger has been fired by the Dallas Police Department, now it’s up to the justice system to hold her accountable for her actions.

The shooting of Botham Jean by off-duty Dallas Police Officer Amber Guyger earlier this month seems like a clear cut murder. So why is she only charged with manslaughter?

A significant advance for LGBT rights in the world’s most populous democracy.

British authorities have charged two members of Russian military intelligence in connection with a poisoning attack on British attack.

Chicago won’t have Rahm Emanuel to kick around anymore.

The military regime in Myanmar has sentenced two reporters to prison for reporting on the repression of the Rohingya Muslims.