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
Tax law should be based on neutral principles. Key language in the pending House bill is anything but.| Walter Olson
Harry Truman claimed a power to do almost anything in the course of protecting what he saw as national security. Even amid the Korean War, the Supreme Court said no.| Walter Olson
Not really. On a wide range of issues, despite ideological divisions, the nine members of the Supreme Court work through legal principles to forge a collegial consensus.| Walter Olson
Here's a gift link to the New York Times's new mini-symposium (which I liked) assembling 35 legal scholars' views on the legality of Trump's actions in his first three months.| walterolson.substack.com
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
