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Walter Olson

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Writer on law etc.; Cato Institute. Election law, Maryland civic stuff, cooking. Blogged at Overlawyered back when. No kings, no tyrants.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy · Jul 29, 2026
Walter Olson
@walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

Writer on law etc.; Cato Institute. Election law, Maryland civic stuff, cooking. Blogged at Overlawyered back when. No kings, no tyrants. 🌉 bridged from 🦋 walterolson.bsky.social, follow @bsky.brid.gy to interact

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On #NCSLSummit federalism panel, Maryland Del. David Moon mentions the bill he introduced - scoffed at initially, but later passed - to enable the state to put liens on federal property for unpaid sums owed. Utah House Rep. Ken Ivory says he’d like to borrow that idea for Utah. #Bipartisanship
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy · Jul 29, 2026
Walter Olson
@walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

Writer on law etc.; Cato Institute. Election law, Maryland civic stuff, cooking. Blogged at Overlawyered back when. No kings, no tyrants. 🌉 bridged from 🦋 walterolson.bsky.social, follow @bsky.brid.gy to interact

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"When more than a third of the [House] seats see no competition at all, polarization and gerrymandering can explain some of the problem, but not all," said [Olson]. And none of the other likely explanations "are exactly good signs for democracy." — Eric Boehm, Reason There are 150 completely uncom...
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy · Jul 26, 2026
Walter Olson
@walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

Writer on law etc.; Cato Institute. Election law, Maryland civic stuff, cooking. Blogged at Overlawyered back when. No kings, no tyrants. 🌉 bridged from 🦋 walterolson.bsky.social, follow @bsky.brid.gy to interact

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Another free trade poster: "Money Buys More Under Free Trade -- Men Should Vote Liberal" /2
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy · Jul 26, 2026
Walter Olson
@walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

Writer on law etc.; Cato Institute. Election law, Maryland civic stuff, cooking. Blogged at Overlawyered back when. No kings, no tyrants. 🌉 bridged from 🦋 walterolson.bsky.social, follow @bsky.brid.gy to interact

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Liberal Party poster for the 1929 United Kingdom general election: "Free Trade Means Prosperity -- Vote Liberal." /1
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy · Jul 26, 2026
Walter Olson
@walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

Writer on law etc.; Cato Institute. Election law, Maryland civic stuff, cooking. Blogged at Overlawyered back when. No kings, no tyrants. 🌉 bridged from 🦋 walterolson.bsky.social, follow @bsky.brid.gy to interact

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Sentence and guilty plea for Maryland police officers in auto insurance fraud scheme involving false police reports and, in some instances, faked car thefts UPDATE: Former Police Officer ...
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy · Jul 25, 2026
Walter Olson
@walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

Writer on law etc.; Cato Institute. Election law, Maryland civic stuff, cooking. Blogged at Overlawyered back when. No kings, no tyrants. 🌉 bridged from 🦋 walterolson.bsky.social, follow @bsky.brid.gy to interact

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Does your state *still* follow the felony murder rule? In 39 states, people can be se...
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy · Jul 21, 2026
Walter Olson
@walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

Writer on law etc.; Cato Institute. Election law, Maryland civic stuff, cooking. Blogged at Overlawyered back when. No kings, no tyrants. 🌉 bridged from 🦋 walterolson.bsky.social, follow @bsky.brid.gy to interact

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If anyone is still taken in by Trump’s 2020-was-rigged shtick at this late date, this may help. Everything Trump’s Election Sp...
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy · Jul 18, 2026
Walter Olson
@walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

Writer on law etc.; Cato Institute. Election law, Maryland civic stuff, cooking. Blogged at Overlawyered back when. No kings, no tyrants. 🌉 bridged from 🦋 walterolson.bsky.social, follow @bsky.brid.gy to interact

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Scott Alexander: Against “Stochastic Terrorism” Against "Stochastic Terrorism"
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy · Jul 18, 2026
Walter Olson
@walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

Writer on law etc.; Cato Institute. Election law, Maryland civic stuff, cooking. Blogged at Overlawyered back when. No kings, no tyrants. 🌉 bridged from 🦋 walterolson.bsky.social, follow @bsky.brid.gy to interact

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I highly recommend @shikhadalmia.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy’s opening remarks at the just-concluded LibCon 2026. The World Needs America to Sav...
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy · Jul 17, 2026
Walter Olson
@walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

Writer on law etc.; Cato Institute. Election law, Maryland civic stuff, cooking. Blogged at Overlawyered back when. No kings, no tyrants. 🌉 bridged from 🦋 walterolson.bsky.social, follow @bsky.brid.gy to interact

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My draft Cato statement on Trump’s latest election conspiracy-mongering. /1
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy · Jul 14, 2026
Walter Olson
@walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

Writer on law etc.; Cato Institute. Election law, Maryland civic stuff, cooking. Blogged at Overlawyered back when. No kings, no tyrants. 🌉 bridged from 🦋 walterolson.bsky.social, follow @bsky.brid.gy to interact

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Sen. Ossoff is in the news regularly making blunt but on-point statements like this. I don't follow many elected officials, but I'll make an exception here. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lx462v3tzpydnob3qpgarbcj/post/3mqn7ugky4226
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy · Jul 11, 2026
Walter Olson
@walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

Writer on law etc.; Cato Institute. Election law, Maryland civic stuff, cooking. Blogged at Overlawyered back when. No kings, no tyrants. 🌉 bridged from 🦋 walterolson.bsky.social, follow @bsky.brid.gy to interact

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You’re bound to get more irregularities with touchscreens then with paper-marked ballots, right? Maybe think again electionlawblog.org?p=157245 "Raffensperger says audit bols...
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy · Jul 11, 2026
Walter Olson
@walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

Writer on law etc.; Cato Institute. Election law, Maryland civic stuff, cooking. Blogged at Overlawyered back when. No kings, no tyrants. 🌉 bridged from 🦋 walterolson.bsky.social, follow @bsky.brid.gy to interact

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Down with PruneYard, "wrong on the day it was decided": "The Supreme Court should overturn the outmoded doctrine that requires private property owners to provide platforms for other people’s speech." [Cato cert amicus brief in Majestic Realty v. Salazar] Majestic Realty v. Salazar
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy · Jul 08, 2026
Walter Olson
@walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

Writer on law etc.; Cato Institute. Election law, Maryland civic stuff, cooking. Blogged at Overlawyered back when. No kings, no tyrants. 🌉 bridged from 🦋 walterolson.bsky.social, follow @bsky.brid.gy to interact

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Desirous of flattering the big guy, FBI launches its Election Georgia Operation, call it the EGO squad for short FBI directing hundreds of anal...
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy · Jun 22, 2026
Walter Olson
@walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

Writer on law etc.; Cato Institute. Election law, Maryland civic stuff, cooking. Blogged at Overlawyered back when. No kings, no tyrants. 🌉 bridged from 🦋 walterolson.bsky.social, follow @bsky.brid.gy to interact

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“[Judge Nancy Abudu said] threats targeting judges’ families, friends and clerks are eroding confidence in the judicial system, both inside and outside of the profession. … The US Marshals Service recorded 564 threats to federal judges in 2025” and already this year there have been more than 340. Judges Say Threats to Family E...
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy · Jun 16, 2026
Walter Olson
@walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

Writer on law etc.; Cato Institute. Election law, Maryland civic stuff, cooking. Blogged at Overlawyered back when. No kings, no tyrants. 🌉 bridged from 🦋 walterolson.bsky.social, follow @bsky.brid.gy to interact

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Noah Smith: Iran is Trump's Katrina Iran is Trump's Katrina
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy · Jun 15, 2026
Walter Olson
@walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

Writer on law etc.; Cato Institute. Election law, Maryland civic stuff, cooking. Blogged at Overlawyered back when. No kings, no tyrants. 🌉 bridged from 🦋 walterolson.bsky.social, follow @bsky.brid.gy to interact

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Francis Fukuyama on Donald’s dud deal. @frankfukuyama.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy The Art of the Non-Deal
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy · May 07, 2026
Walter Olson
@walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

Writer on law etc.; Cato Institute. Election law, Maryland civic stuff, cooking. Blogged at Overlawyered back when. No kings, no tyrants. 🌉 bridged from 🦋 walterolson.bsky.social, follow @bsky.brid.gy to interact

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People who hold power shouldn’t plaster their names and faces across government buildings and infrastructure. Trump’s moves to do so deserve emphatic public repudiation. [Dan Greenberg] America Needs an Edifice Compl...
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy · May 06, 2026
Walter Olson
@walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

Writer on law etc.; Cato Institute. Election law, Maryland civic stuff, cooking. Blogged at Overlawyered back when. No kings, no tyrants. 🌉 bridged from 🦋 walterolson.bsky.social, follow @bsky.brid.gy to interact

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They kept saying the ballroom would involve no taxpayer money. Wait. What? A *$1 Billion* Bal...
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy · May 05, 2026
Walter Olson
@walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

Writer on law etc.; Cato Institute. Election law, Maryland civic stuff, cooking. Blogged at Overlawyered back when. No kings, no tyrants. 🌉 bridged from 🦋 walterolson.bsky.social, follow @bsky.brid.gy to interact

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European classical liberals (as they are more likely to refer to themselves) are more critical of nationalism, less interested in constitutionalism and litigation, more uniformly hostile to Trump, and more focused on containing Russian aggression than are their typical American counterparts.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:crofjlyaco67eskwrh65hv3l/post/3mkwbw7gckk2x

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy · May 05, 2026
Walter Olson
@walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

Writer on law etc.; Cato Institute. Election law, Maryland civic stuff, cooking. Blogged at Overlawyered back when. No kings, no tyrants. 🌉 bridged from 🦋 walterolson.bsky.social, follow @bsky.brid.gy to interact

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"Friday's announcement reveals, once again, how little any trading partner can trust Trump. The president's word is effectively worthless, and his 'deals' are subject to change at any time, for any reason. Who would enter into serious negotiations with someone like that?"

Trump's new European car tarif...

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy · Apr 22, 2026
Walter Olson
@walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

Writer on law etc.; Cato Institute. Election law, Maryland civic stuff, cooking. Blogged at Overlawyered back when. No kings, no tyrants. 🌉 bridged from 🦋 walterolson.bsky.social, follow @bsky.brid.gy to interact

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Germany began automatically granting birthright citizenship to eligible immigrant children born after 1/1/00. Study finds that "immigrant youth who acquired citizenship at birth are substantially less likely to engage in criminal activity, with estimates indicating a 70% reduction in crime."

Birthright Citizenship and You...

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy · Jan 10, 2026
Walter Olson
@walterolson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

Writer on law etc.; Cato Institute. Election law, Maryland civic stuff, cooking. Blogged at Overlawyered back when. No kings, no tyrants. 🌉 bridged from 🦋 walterolson.bsky.social, follow @bsky.brid.gy to interact

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Great piece by my Cato colleague. “Since July, immigration agents have shot at least six people behind the wheel of a vehicle. The same playbook is used each time: the agent says they “feared for their life” as a vehicle was “weaponized” against them. Juries should decide, but we tie their hands.

Opinion | Renee Good wasn’t th...

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