Walter Olson

@walterolson

Author & blogger, about law especially; & .

Washington DC; New Market, MD
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Joined September 2008
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    14 Apr 2014

    Some of them want to block you/Some of them want to be blocked by you/Some of them want to RT you/Some of them want to be RT'd

    44 replies 404 retweets 692 likes
  2. 11 hours ago

    They want to shut down: Right wing speakers".None of us voted for Trump. I've never voted for a republican presidential candidate in my life

    97 replies 309 retweets 607 likes
  3. 6 hours ago

    McCain: Prez "can sign whatever EOs he likes. But the law is the law. We are not bringing back torture in the US.”

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  4. 6 hours ago

    I agree w/ : Supreme Court of Texas should leave the whole "defy federal courts" thing to Alabama's Roy Moore

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  5. 22 hours ago

    China Shuts Down Website of Mao Yushi, Friedman Prize Winner

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  6. 8 hours ago

    I still think a Shadow Cabinet, as in Britain, makes more sense than an opposition consisting of rebel Twitter accounts for each agency.

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  7. 10 hours ago

    This will be a recurring theme.

    And yes, it's terrible that the VOA's Board of Broadcasting governors was replaced by presidential appointees. But guess who signed that? /2
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  8. 10 hours ago

    Hilarious bad lip reading of the inauguration will lift your spirits

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  9. 17 hours ago

    One person died this morning in fiery crash following congressional motorcade roadblock in via

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  10. Jan 24

    Big fan of Kethledge, who wrote a whip-smart opinion in In re Dry Max Pampers Litigation, 724 F.3d 713.

    Judge Kethledge -- who will judge GW's moot court finals tomorrow -- is in the running for SCOTUS, WaPo says.
    2 replies 3 retweets 6 likes
  11. Jan 23

    identity politics is simply a new twist on human tribalism, which is probably the default state for most people.

    As with identity politics, too many started taking seriously problems with ‘alternative knowledge’ only when the right began wielding it.
    13 replies 177 retweets 370 likes
  12. 13 hours ago

    "Please don’t throw your weak-minded, question-begging, mood affiliated doctrine of 'false equivalence' at me"

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  13. 14 hours ago

    Newspaper in Indianola, MS, is tweeting crime haiku.

    Kids across the street wave a BB gun at you. Uh-oh, window out.
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  14. 16 hours ago

    Mary Tyler Moore, R.I.P. One of the beloved weekly TV visitors of my boyhood. I wrote about her show here:

    2 replies 30 retweets 43 likes
  15. 16 hours ago

    So sad. Mock me if you want, but the WJM newsroom made me want to be a journo almost as much as All the President's Men

    Mary Tyler Moore has died. The actress defined a vision of womanhood in the '60s and '70s.
    2 retweets 7 likes
  16. 17 hours ago

    "A little child was in the audience, and he started to cry because the emperor was wearing so many clothes."

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  17. 18 hours ago

    Obama signed a similar "regulatory freeze" memorandum on coming in; Trump's goes further in two ways

    What Trump's regulatory freeze really means, really does, and really foretells.
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  18. 20 hours ago

    Is it that hard for journalists to find people who remember the last transition & can identify what's normal/what's not? (Apparently so.)

    4 replies 11 retweets 21 likes
  19. 18 hours ago

    Supposedly by a former employee…

    From : "National Park Service tells me those BadlandsNPS tweets were from a former employee & the account was 'compromised'."
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  20. 18 hours ago

    I've laughed at the rebel National Park tweets too, but legally they amount to 140-character resignation letters

    Quick Cheat Sheet on First Amendment Rights of Public Employees
    6 replies 9 retweets 10 likes

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