Writer on law etc.; Cato Institute. Election law, Maryland civic stuff, cooking. Blogged at Overlawyered back when. No kings, no tyrants.
Walter Olson
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ICE and Border Patrol brutality over the past year qualify as extrajudicial violence, just as do the Caribbean boat strikes, and there need to be consequences for those responsible. New from me at @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social
Last year I wrote about how Musk’s suit was both a travesty of antitrust law (“the element of financial gain [among the supposed conspirators] is attenuated almost to nothingness”) and an assault on the First Amendment rights of the advertisers. Good riddance to this abusive litigation. /2, end
This new edition of "Getting to Yes" is a game-changer!
This is excellent.👍Honestly gave me some much-needed hope during these dark times.
Elon Musk’s Twitter/X sued advertisers for avoiding the site as a bad, irresponsible ad environment, saying they were acting jointly in restraint of trade in violation of U.S. antitrust law. Good news: last week a federal judge dismissed the suit. /1
Members of Jan. 6 mob sue police who fended off Capitol attack www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
The SAVE America Act isn’t just about voter ID—it hands power to an executive agency to decide the rules after it becomes law. Vague, rushed, and risky. Congress doesn’t want to tell us how the law will be enforced, and that’s the real problem, warns Cato’s Walter Olson. https://ow.ly/qqzs50YAPH3
