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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Members of Jan. 6 mob sue police who fended off Capitol attack www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
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“.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.”
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This new edition of "Getting to Yes" is a game-changer!
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Reforming Social Security and Medicare is key to fixing the US fiscal outlook.
Karoline Leavitt: "Some of the previous leaders are now no longer on planet Earth because they lied to the United States and they strung us along in negotiations, and that was unacceptable to the president, which is why many of the previous leaders were killed"
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Aaron Rupar
Cato Institute
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
MAGA loves to agitate on the theme that noncitizens, especially those not lawfully present, are draining social welfare programs. Lately states have been checking up on the Medicaid rolls, and finding that reality doesn't back the nativist narrative.
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
Jen Taub
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
The Trump administration together with Elon Musk have launched a barrage of legal and regulatory proceedings at private groups that organize or promote advertising boycotts against the X / Twitter soc...
Federal health officials ordered states to reverify the immigration status of hundreds of thousands of Medicaid enrollees. After seven months, findings from five states have uncovered few immigrants w...
A U.S. judge on Thursday dismissed X Corp's antitrust lawsuit that accused the World Federation of Advertisers and major companies including Mars, CVS Health and Colgate-Palmolive of illegally boyco...
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Walter Olson
This is excellent.👍Honestly gave me some much-needed hope during these dark times.
Walter Olson
Cato Institute
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
