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The Future of Freedom: Indiana in the Amazing Year 2025

The Future of Freedom: Indiana in the Amazing Year 2025

In the old times, before the Great Freeze, when there was still such a thing as “Indiana,” the tax man would come around and we’d have to…
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Dan Canon
WTF is Insurrection?

WTF is Insurrection?

The word “insurrection” has been in the news a lot recently. It was bandied about during Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial and in…
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JoAnne Sweeny
Politicians Say the Darndest Things

Politicians Say the Darndest Things

A while ago I highlighted some of the under researched, long shot statements that attorneys have made in regard to sexual assault…
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James J. Wilkerson, J.D.
The legacy of the Midwest’s forgotten socialist newspapers

The legacy of the Midwest’s forgotten socialist newspapers

What can we learn from the failures of early 20th century leftist media?
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Dan Canon
Impeaching & Convicting Trump Even After January 20: Necessary & Proper

Impeaching & Convicting Trump Even After January 20: Necessary & Proper

After the events of January 6, in which the sitting President of the United States incited his supporters to violence and was responsible…
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Sam Marcosson
Hey federal judges: we told you so

Hey federal judges: we told you so

It’s been almost five years since my colleagues and I sued then-candidate Trump for inciting violence at his campaign rallies on behalf of…
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Dan Canon
WTF is Sedition?

WTF is Sedition?

The last four years have had a lot of legal experts looking up once-obscure terminology. Emoluments, insurrection, sedition. These are not…
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JoAnne Sweeny
My Life as a Medical Refugee

My Life as a Medical Refugee

What happens when a government takes Covid-19 seriously?
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JoAnne Sweeny
Bad Blood

Bad Blood

I am sitting in class, trying to focus on some specific legal rule, complete with Latin phrases and obscure jargon, and I am bleeding…
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Samantha Hall
I argued a shooting death case in front of Amy Coney Barrett.

I argued a shooting death case in front of Amy Coney Barrett.

Now that it’s been two months since Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation, I can confidently say she is not qualified to sit on the…
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Dan Canon
How A Little Self-Care Helped Me Pass the California Bar Exam

How A Little Self-Care Helped Me Pass the California Bar Exam

The day I found out I failed the California Bar Exam in 2018 was one of the worst days of my life. I broke down. I cried. I felt deep…
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Renee Barbara
Is there a “Real Doctor” in the House?

Is there a “Real Doctor” in the House?

Let me start by saying that I am a doctor. A real one. In that, I have a doctorate degree and am therefore qualified to teach at the…
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JoAnne Sweeny
Attorneys Say the Darndest Things

Attorneys Say the Darndest Things

Attorneys are often considered pillars of the community. Often thought of as vigorous champions of justice, attorneys are bound by their…
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James J. Wilkerson, J.D.
What President Biden Means for the Future of Title IX

What President Biden Means for the Future of Title IX

How the new administration may approach campus sexual assault.
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James J. Wilkerson, J.D.
Looking For A Fight

Looking For A Fight

Kavanaugh Remains the Most Trumpian of Trump Justices
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Jeffrey Radhaus
Fruit of the Poisonous Tree: How Toxic Masculinity Produces Sexual Assault

Fruit of the Poisonous Tree: How Toxic Masculinity Produces Sexual Assault

Poison Tree, Poison Fruit
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James J. Wilkerson, J.D.
Blessing Bigotry

Blessing Bigotry

Will The Supreme Court Justify Discrimination In The Name Of Religious Freedom?
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Jeffrey Radhaus
Marriage Stories and How They Influence SCOTUS

Marriage Stories and How They Influence SCOTUS

Your favorite editors (that’s Doc Sweeny and me) have just published an article about the marriage equality cases that went from Kentucky…
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Dan Canon
I am not a victim. And yet, I am.

I am not a victim. And yet, I am.

I have never been raped. I know women who have. But it has never happened to me and I consider myself lucky because it is only luck that…
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JoAnne Sweeny
Another Black woman murdered in Louisville.

Another Black woman murdered in Louisville.

Who was Alberta Jones?
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Sarcastic Sunshine
What I Know about Cop Violence in Louisville (Abridged)

What I Know about Cop Violence in Louisville (Abridged)

“Wait for it,” I said.
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Dan Canon
Judicial Politics: How to Elect Those Who Want to Judge You

Judicial Politics: How to Elect Those Who Want to Judge You

In This Corner…
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James J. Wilkerson, J.D.
One Business Week of Justified Police Shootings

One Business Week of Justified Police Shootings

“[I]t is impossible but things should be as they are, for everything is for the best.”
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Dan Canon
A Potential Justice’s Opinion: Amy Coney Barrett on Due Process in Collegiate Sexual Assault

A Potential Justice’s Opinion: Amy Coney Barrett on Due Process in Collegiate Sexual Assault

The News
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James J. Wilkerson, J.D.
Pack the Court

Pack the Court

If you suggest that if Mitch McConnell rushes Donald Trump’s nominee on to the Supreme Court just weeks before the election, Democrats…
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Kurt Metzmeier
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