Outside the Beltway

Less than a week after the bomb he planted at the Boston Marathon went off, Dzhokar Tsarnaev has been formally charged in Federal Court.

What Miranda does and does not cover and what consequences follow if police do not comply.

A strange loophole in the law means Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will be questioned without being advised of his Miranda Rights.

A new report confirms that the United States did engage in torture in the wake of the September 11th attacks.

Jerry Brown tells the US Supreme Court to go to hell.

The Defense Of Marriage Act didn’t fare very well during today’s Supreme Court oral arguments.

The gambling mogul is self-reporting violations of the law against bribing foreign officials.

The government of Malaysia paid a lot of money to get some blogs placed at various outlets.

A federal judge poses an interesting question in a case over Obama’s contraceptive mandate.

“Killing Americans,” my latest for The National Interest, has posted.

The Obama Administration has given us a peek at its legal arguments for targeted killings and they are troubling to say the least.

Lance Armstrong finally confessed something pretty much everyone assumed was true.

Stony Brook finance prof Noah Smith writes, “The Single Best Anti-Gun-Death Policy? Ending the Drug War.”

President Obama’s recent statements on the legalization of marijuana in Colorado and Washington are not consistent with his own Administration’s policies.

George Zimmerman’s attorneys have filed a defamation lawsuit against NBC News.

The issue of same-sex marriage will be before the Supreme Court early next year.

Has Petraeus provided the basic explanation for the administration’s immediate responses to Benghazi?

The David Petraeus/Paula Broadwell story gets curiouser.

The Supreme Court has agreed to take on another big case.

Two states have legalized marijuana, but before you light up you should know that there are some complications.

It’s time to panic over anonymous guys in Philadelphia again, at least if you work at Fox News Channel.

A victory for advocates of Voter ID laws in a Washington, D.C. Federal Court.

The Court’s 2012-2013 term begins tomorrow morning, and there are plenty of big cases on the docket.

Secret surveillance of American citizens has dramatically increased under the Obama Administration.

Mitt Romney is a deeply flawed candidate, but that doesn’t mean the President is any better.

Based on its recently passed platform, the Democratic Party has given up any pretense of putting civil liberties ahead of “national security.”

When it comes to issues like medical marijuana, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are reading from the same playbook.

A legal setback for the Texas Voter ID law, but not much of a political setback for Voter ID laws in general.

The Justice Department has approved Virginia’s completely useless voter ID law.

A victory for the proponents of Voter ID Laws in Pennsylvania.

After two-and-a-half years and who knows how many taxpayer dollars spent trying to prove criminal wrongdoing, the SEC fell short.

It’s never a good thing when an Administration is investigating itself.