Law and Politics
THOMAS (Library of Congress) — Legislative information from the Library of Congress.Law Library of Congress — Allegedly, the largest collection of legal materials in the world, over 2 million volumes.
Global Legal Information Network — Laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other legal sources.
FindLaw — Free legal database, with collections of cases and codes, legal news.
Office of Postsecondary Education Security Statistics — Contains college campus crime statistics, sortable.
Bureau of Justice Statistics — http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/ Legal and judicial statistics, everything from crime to law enforcement.
The Avalon Project at Yale Law School — Documents in law, history, and diplomacy.
US Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774–1873 (Library of Congress) — The historical Congressional records, bills, documents, statutes, journals, and debates from LOC.
Lobbying Database — Who spent what on firms who have spent lobbying money from 1998. The US, with the finest Congress money can buy!
Legislative Activities — Synopsis of House of Representatives’ bill summary, status, public laws, and votes.
heinonline.org – (commercial) – Claims to be the ‘worlds largest image based database of legal documents’ . I was able to find an obtuse document on using Bayes Theorem for fact finding in a criminal case.
Project Vote Smart — Government officials and election candidates database, order by last name or ZIP code.
