Outside the Beltway

The evidence is clear. Injustice feeds rage and rage sometimes boils over.

George Zimmerman has filed a bizarre conspiracy theory-laden lawsuit against Trayvon Martin’s family, prosecutors, and others.

A bittersweet farewell to a newspaperman past his sell-by date.

A Florida jury has convicted a man involved in an argument over a parking space of manslaughter, rejecting his attempt to invoke the state’s ‘stand your ground’ law

An incident this week in Arkansas is just the latest example of a depressing and dangerous trend.

Later this week, the Supreme Court will hear a case that could rewrite decades of law interpreting the Fifth Amendment’s Double Jeopardy rule.

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 Florida man who shot and killed an African-American male amid a parking lot confrontation will face manslaughter charges after all.

Next term, the Justices will revisit the issue of whether someone can be tried in state and Federal Court for the same crime for the first time in nearly sixty years.

Yet another object lesson in why active efforts at inclusiveness are vital.

There’s little doubt that Hillary Clinton will win today’s South Carolina Primary, the only question is how big a win she’s likely to score.

Bernie Sanders scored a big win in New Hampshire, as most people expected, but the look ahead still tells us that Hillary Clinton will eventually be the Democratic nominee for President.

Dylann Roof has been indicted in Federal Court for completely unnecessary reasons.

David Frum calls for several measures to reduce gun violence.

President Obama gave an interesting and somewhat unusual interview to a podcaster late last week, but the media is obsessed over a single word.

A word that has come in recent years to be used to refer chiefly to Muslim fanatics obviously applies to a man who murdered nine people because they’re black.

The Baltimore Police Department will finally be under the Federal microscope. But it took the death of Freddie Gray for it happen.

Nearly three years to the day after it started, the George Zimmerman case is essentially over.

Not surprisingly, the Federal investigation of the Michael Brown shooting is ending much like the state investigation did.

Reports from the Justice Department seem to be laying the groundwork for more disappointment for those hoping for charges against Officer Darren Wilson.

It appears that there will be no Federal charges against George Zimmerman for shooting Trayvon Martin. This is not a surprise.

There is a good possibility that Darren Wilson could be acquitted in the shooting of Michael Brown.. Are the protesters ready to accept that reality?

What you think about the events in Ferguson depends quite a lot on whether you’re black or white.

There’s been far too much hysteria and hyperbole when it comes to ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws.

ABC News selectively edited their interview with Juror B29 to give a false impression of what she said.

Juror B29 says George Zimmerman “got away with murder” but concedes he wasn’t guilty of murder.

We’ve still got a long way to go.

Time to “pivot to the economy” again.

George Zimmerman is back in the news, this time for saving life rather than taking it.

President Obama has once again weighed in on the Trayvon Martin case in a personal manner.

Going back to the very beginning can be useful.

Evidence that George Zimmerman acted out of racial bias is completely lacking, which means the Federal Government should stay out of this case entirely.

The president says we should honor Trayvon Martin by preventing similar tragedies in the future.

The jury likely got it right. That doesn’t mean George Zimmerman didn’t kill Trayvon Martin or that Martin deserved to die.

George Zimmerman was acquitted on all charges by a Florida jury late Saturday night.

A major evidentiary ruling on the eve of the George Zimmerman murder trial.

It’s time to take a look at the pre-trial issues in what is likely to be the trial of the Summer of 2013.

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

Big news in the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin case.

For some reason, George Zimmerman sat down for an hour-long interview last night.

The prosecutor in George Zimmernan’s case has made public “evidence” that will likely never be admitted at trial, but which could prejudice the case immensely.