by Michael Leppert | Jul 10, 2024 | Politics/Government
As a new adjunct professor six years ago, the class I was asked to teach was titled “Public law and government relations.” It was a class designed to teach how ideas become laws. The students were public affairs majors, just like I was, thirty years earlier. ...
by Michael Leppert | Aug 17, 2023 | Politics/Government
What a difference a year makes in the American debate on abortion. In the summer of 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its Dobbs ruling, ending the nearly half a century old precedent established by Roe v. Wade that protected a woman’s right to choose. That ruling...
by Michael Leppert | May 31, 2023 | Politics/Government
Let’s get straight to the point. Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita is a disgraceful public servant. The seven-member Indiana Medical Licensing Board is disgraceful too. There. Now that we have established those two sad truths, let me share with you the receipts....
by Michael Leppert | Apr 13, 2023 | Politics/Government
Judge Juan Merchan, who is presiding over former President Donald Trump’s first criminal trial in New York, made a $15 campaign contribution to President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign on July 26, 2020. The inconsequential donation has opened the judge up to...
by Michael Leppert | May 6, 2022 | Politics/Government, Pop/Life
Monday had been a great vacation day for me and my wife in south Florida. We were sun-kissed and tired and at one of our favorite local restaurants for a late dinner. It seems there are always large families on vacation in there at the end of a long day on the beach,...
