Marc Murphy
@murphycartoons
UofL Brandeis School of Law Professor of Practice, Trial Attorney, Editorial Cartoonist. Opinions my own.
It’s one thing for the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the history of mankind to not make progress. It’s another thing when it regresses. The once greatest nation on earth that could do anything it chose to do . . . is still doing what it chooses to without regard to its people or the planet.
The Louisville Metro Police Department has not, in fact, changed.My latest for the Courier Journal.
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
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.
Justice Martin Johnstone was the first judge to serve at every level of Kentucky’s courts. At each level he served with fairness, empathy, and wisdom. Rest in Peace, judge.
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.
Ashland, Russell, and other friends: I’m speaking at the train station so it’s easier to run me out of town on a rail . . .
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.
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.
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.
When they tell us only what they think we should know they‘re winning. When we accept that, they’ve won. #McConnell
The Great American Metaphor. A fair built poorly by lies, ego, graft, racism, and ignorance. Happy 250th, America.
When he departed @universityoflouisville a bit ago I drew this for Kenny Klein. With his passing it’s even more to the point. Thx to @cardchronicle for the reminder.
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.
1. Ian McDougall, General Counsel Lexis/Nexis to the Kentucky Bar Association, on Artificial Intelligence and the practice of law: “It has ended the tyranny of the blank page”.
The Can Opener is the most obvious metaphor to a political artist since The Hindenburg. I tried to resist but was called to the infamous underpass as if it was one of Homer’s Sirens.
The World comes to the United States for @fifaworldcup. Excuse the mess we’ve been offsides, among other things, for quite some time now.
Until we demand better our police will continue to shoot and kill our neighbors in the throes of a mental health crisis. The LMPD is only as good as we demand they be. As we demand the Mayor makes them be. Bang Bang, You’re Dead.
I can no longer teach with confidence or a straight face that in America no one is above the law, or, that the Rule of Law will prevail at the highest levels of our justice system.
The race is set. To the exact extent Andy Barr is a simpering stooge pandering to the worst tendencies of the voters Charles Booker is a courageous leader exhorting those voters to believe in their best selves. This race shouldn’t be close. The fact that it might be is to our shame.