Marc Murphy

@murphycartoons.bsky.social

UofL Brandeis School of Law Professor of Practice, Trial Attorney, Editorial Cartoonist. Opinions my own.

Class of 2026 if you see this you’re scrolling and I’m glad. You’ve studied enough. You’re ready, enough. Next, put the phone down and take a walk. Take a walk after dinner, too. Think about the big picture. Rest, sleep, get there early. I’ll see you on the other side. Brandeis School of Law

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National Democrats hide behind so-called rules that don’t exist. Republicans ignore actual laws and write new ones that subvert the Constitution itself. Democrats have brought Roberts Rules of Order to a gunfight for years and it’s a predictable massacre. My latest for the Courier Journal.

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Criminal law professor and career prosecutor and defense attorney here. ICE is committing murder in your name. And, if you support this Administration, the blood is on your hands, too. France should take their statute back.

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“Teen takeovers” are a problem in cities around the country. They confound authorities because their causes are complex and solutions layered. Louisville: “Nah. Let’s just close all the bars and restaurants on Bardstown Road”.

It’s inexcusable but utterly in character that National Democratic leadership isn’t requiring an answer to Mitch McConnell’s status on the nation’s behalf. Even in a coma he’s better at this than them. He wins. They lose. We lose. As it’s always been.

Until the world’s most powerful corrupt President called the president of the world’s most corrupt sporting organization for a favor the joy from this World Cup summer had allowed us and the world to forget, for a moment, the awful old men who run the world.

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It’s unsurprising but shameful nonetheless that Sen. McConnell’s office won’t tell his own constituents what is happening. He’s leaving office, and this life, the way he lived it. As a disappointment.

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1. (Orig. publ. Feb 2025) Soon he will pass. Civil conventions will require most to either extol his career or, at a minimum, refrain from criticizing him, not speak ill of the dead, all that. Well, not him, not now, and not me.

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The White House is awash in blood and it’s coming from the Oval Office. The blood from innocents slaughtered in wars to distract us. The blood of immigrants. Blood poisoned, too, by the hate unleashed by the President and his people. And the blood from cages he built on our White House lawn.

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