The rule of law makes for a virtuous circle
Preventing government from trampling liberty isn't just some high-minded public service. When we protect others' rights, we make it more likely our own will be protected.| Walter Olson
Preventing government from trampling liberty isn't just some high-minded public service. When we protect others' rights, we make it more likely our own will be protected.| Walter Olson
A new executive order promotes Trump's notion that to call his regime authoritarian is to incite or justify violence -- and contemplates investigating and surveilling critics who do such things.| walterolson.substack.com
Mail-in voting, DOJ demands states' voter files, voter registration for new citizens, the Utah gerrymander and more.| walterolson.substack.com
For decades, the League of Women Voters and similar civic groups have welcomed new citizens with a voter registration table. No longer.| Walter Olson
It won't have much legal effect, but pleases his base and buys him a bit of favorable symbolism.| walterolson.substack.com
Strongman ruler calls in troops and paramilitaries to occupy national capital| Walter Olson
In the Maryland judges case, Trump's underlings argue that checking a president's power would “diminish the votes of the citizens who elected him.”| walterolson.substack.com
A second helping of news highlights on how the ICE deportation squads have been behaving.| walterolson.substack.com
But if the courts stick to constitutional precedent, they're unlikely to let him get away with it.| walterolson.substack.com
Its advice that people shouldn't be allowed to mask up on the street "while terrorizing others and flouting the law" might have more than one meaning.| walterolson.substack.com
As masked ICE enforcers rampage through American streets and workplaces, non-citizens aren't their only targets.| walterolson.substack.com
Sorry, Musk-'n'-FTC, but your legal theories are going to run smack into the First Amendment if your adversaries ever get them to court.| walterolson.substack.com
The Court says some of the right things about coercion in a public school context. But I doubt its new free-exercise theory will prove either truly neutral or practically workable.| Walter Olson
In the birthright citizenship case, the Supreme Court was in a hurry to abolish the universal injunction. It should have considered taking an off ramp for now instead.| Walter Olson
The prosaic truth about Bluesky's supposed insta-ban on JD Vance| Walter Olson
A few items that caught my notice about our new secret police| Walter Olson
The Constitution limits his power to push states around| Walter Olson
Some right-wingers jumped to blame immigration advocates or leftists for the Minnesota assassinations -- and still haven't corrected themselves.| Walter Olson
Five months into Trump II, roughly a third of Americans have come to favor deportation policies that would have seemed unthinkably harsh not long ago.| walterolson.substack.com
