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Top Stories published by I Taught the Law in July of 2024

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Dan Canon in I Taught the Law

With fear for our democracy

Lessons from Sotomayor’s dissent in the Trump immunity case.

JoAnne Sweeny in I Taught the Law

The Trump Assassination Attempt: Is Joe Biden to Blame?

Dan Canon in I Taught the Law

Why Would a Lawyer Choose to Give Bad Advice?

I give advice for a living. That’s been my profession for almost 20 years, and a hobby long before that. I do my best, but I don’t always get it right. This is a story about a time I gave bad advice.

JoAnne Sweeny in I Taught the Law

Importing a Husband: a Liberty Interest

Immigration officials have a lot of authority. Now they have…

Joe Dunman in I Taught the Law

Plucking Another Stone from the Wall of Separation

Louisiana’s deliberate effort to overrule a crucial First Amendment case.

A close up photo of the Ten Commandments inscribed in stone. It reads The Ten Commandments. I AM the LORD thy GOD.

Joe Dunman in I Taught the Law

A photo of actor John Houseman standing in a classroom playing Professor Charles Kingsfield in the movie The Paper Chase.

My Second First Year of Law School

Key lessons about law school that I learned as a first year law professor.

Martin French in I Taught the Law

POLITICS

The One Where Columbo Figures Out Why We Shouldn’t Do The Conspiracy Theory Thing, with Patrick McGoohan

Maybe it’s a bad idea?

Marc Murphy in I Taught the Law

Lara Trump Is Ugly

Since I began publishing political art when Barack Obama was still a US Senator…

Marc Murphy in I Taught the Law

We’re Not In Kansas Anymore. Or Iowa Or New Hampshire Or . . .

For the first time in years the Democratic Party has momentum. Its party nominee not only looks like America but represents — as leaders do so much more frequently in other Western Democracies — today, not yesterday. What…

Steven Toews, JD, MBA in I Taught the Law

What Movies and TV Get Wrong About Criminal Law

Legal dramas aren’t accurate representations of the…

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Anora Marie Morton, J.D.

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Elizabeth Muwanga

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Michael Shelton

Sarcastic Sunshine

Miles Devon Skeens IV

Khandice Lofton

Brittany Greenwell

Jeffrey Radhaus

Ed Ergenzinger, JD, PhD

Horatiu Druma-Strugariu

Michelle Browning Coughlin

J. Kevin Byrne, MA, MSc, MFA, resident of St. Paul

Consistent Contradiction

Sherrell Writes

Soy Samson Writing

Percy Longbottom

Confidence Emmanuel Owosanni

Nilesh Kavthekar

Tyrone Atreides

Tannishtha Adhikary

Steven Toews, JD, MBA

Natalia Mathias