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Retired Professor of Law and Public Policy at IU-Indy. Former lawyer, former Executive Director of Indiana ACLU, former columnist at Indianapolis Star and Indiana Business Journal. Blog daily at www.sheilakennedy.net.

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Vice Sgnaling The Guardian recently published an article addressing the degraded rhetoric ushered in by MAGA and employed non-stop by Trump. We all are familiar with the concept of “virtue signaling”…

Vice Sgnaling sheilakennedy.net/2026/02/vice...

20.02.2026 11:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How To Disenfranchise A Population Every American who paid even the least amount of attention in history class is familiar with the phrase “No taxation without representation.” It was a rallying cry during the war for in…

How To Disenfranchise A Population sheilakennedy.net/2026/02/how-...

19.02.2026 11:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Religion, Common Sense–And Snark Yesterday, I shared signs that the resistance to MAGA/Trump is gaining steam. Among those positive signs is the emergence of religious leaders who are now coming out in force to rebut the performat…

Religion, Common Sense--And Snark sheilakennedy.net/2026/02/reli...

18.02.2026 11:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Good Stuff Is Happening Too There’s a reason “doom scrolling” has entered our vocabularies. Every day, the news is filled with incomprehensibly stupid and damaging activities of Trump and his collection of c…

Good Stuff Is Happening Too sheilakennedy.net/2026/02/good...

17.02.2026 11:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why I Keep Harping On Gerrymandering I’m sure many of you are getting tired of my repeated posts about gerrymandering. Sorry, but it’s important to detail all the various, terrible effects of this practice. (I can promise …

Why I Keep Harping On Gerrymandering sheilakennedy.net/2026/02/why-...

16.02.2026 11:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Parental Rights– And Wrongs One of the thorniest issues in American law involves “parental rights.” On the one hand, the law recognizes the primacy and importance of parenthood, acknowledging the right of parents …

Parental Rights-- And Wrongs sheilakennedy.net/2026/02/pare...

15.02.2026 11:48 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Contrarian Has A List… Nice Americans–okay, real Americans–increasingly issue anguished commentaries insisting that Trump’s America “isn’t who we are.” Much as I would like to believe …

The Contrarian Has A List... sheilakennedy.net/2026/02/cont...

14.02.2026 11:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Monetizing Everything Could Indiana’s legislature be any more arrogant, or any more oblivious to what constitutes value? (That was a rhetorical question, since the correct answer is obviously “no.”) Th…

Monetizing Everything sheilakennedy.net/2026/02/mone...

13.02.2026 12:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Monetizing Everything Could Indiana’s legislature be any more arrogant, or any more oblivious to what constitutes value? (That was a rhetorical question, since the correct answer is obviously “no.”) Th…

Monetizing Everything sheilakennedy.net/2026/02/mone...

13.02.2026 12:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Preaching To The Choir One of the regular writers who posts at Lincoln Square is a political science professor named Kristoffer Ealy. I’ve cited him before, because I have found his posts particularly perceptive, a…

Preaching To The Choir sheilakennedy.net/2026/02/prea...

12.02.2026 11:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Rebutting The Big Lie–Again America’s toddler-in-chief apparently remains consumed by his electoral loss in 2000. He continues to insist that the loss could not possibly have been legitimate–obviously, any loss or…

Rebutting The Big Lie--Again sheilakennedy.net/2026/02/rebu...

11.02.2026 11:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Indiana’s Incompetent Government Apologies to readers who have the good fortune to reside elsewhere, but this post returns to the fiscal, civic and cultural disaster that is Indiana government. I have repeatedly focused on our dep…

Indiana's Incompetent Government sheilakennedy.net/2026/02/indi...

10.02.2026 11:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It Isn’t Just Trump… It’s impossible–at least for thinking people–to live in today’s America without trying to figure out just how we got here. Most of us start with the obvious question: how co…

It Isn't Just Trump... sheilakennedy.net/2026/02/it-i...

09.02.2026 12:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Brooks’ Final Column David Brooks has announced that he is leaving The New York Times, for an as-yet unexplained position involving Yale University. Most days when the Times publishes a Brooks article, I read it–…

Brooks' Final Column sheilakennedy.net/2026/02/broo...

08.02.2026 11:44 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Yellow Lines And Dead Armadillos Well-meaning people continue to urge folks on the political Left and Right to talk to each other, to listen to each other, and to come to the “middle.” This constant refrain drives me u…

Yellow Lines And Dead Armadillos sheilakennedy.net/2026/02/yell...

07.02.2026 11:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Broad-Brush Bigotry Yesterday, in a post about Nick Hanauer, I insisted that no group should be stereotyped–including people who are obscenely rich. Broad-brush negative characterizations–stereotypes&#8211…

Broad-Brush Bigotry sheilakennedy.net/2026/02/broa...

06.02.2026 11:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Listen To Nick Hanauer I have previously referred to billionaire Nick Hanauer, and his clear-eyed view of what economic evidence tells us. Hanauer has, for example, explained multiple times why raising the minimum wage, …

Listen To Nick Hanauer sheilakennedy.net/2026/02/list...

05.02.2026 11:18 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Smell Of Hypocrisy In The Morning… I know we Americans are facing truly horrific challenges–the White House is occupied by a man whose malevolent insanity is impossible to ignore. His ICE agents are America’s version of …

The Smell Of Hypocrisy In The Morning... sheilakennedy.net/2026/02/the-...

04.02.2026 11:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Echoes Of Infamy Trump’s promise to MAGA –as I’ve noted before, the only promise he has kept–was to Make America White Again, with all that promise entails. (It isn’t just skin color t…

Echoes Of Infamy sheilakennedy.net/2026/02/echo...

03.02.2026 11:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Ten Commandments–Again Indiana’s terrible legislature is at it again. Lawmakers have advanced revised legislation that would allow — but not require, as in the original proposal — public schools to post the Ten Com…

The Ten Commandments--Again sheilakennedy.net/2026/02/the-...

02.02.2026 11:12 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Right Side Of History In response to the growing, undeniable fascism of MAGA and the Trump administration,  good people have been asking an anguished question: What can I do? For many of us, the answer is murky. We can&…

The Right Side Of History sheilakennedy.net/2026/02/the-...

01.02.2026 11:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Christian Nationalists Are At It Again At the base of all policy disputes is a foundational question: What is government for? What sort of decisions are properly within the remit of the state, and which must be left to individuals exerc…

Christian Nationalists Are At It Again sheilakennedy.net/2026/01/chri...

31.01.2026 11:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Cutting Through The C**p If I see another “study” attempting to describe the different motives of those who support Donald Trump, I will once again engage my (not-so-inner) potty-mouth. The most recent example …

Cutting Through The C**p sheilakennedy.net/2026/01/cutt...

30.01.2026 11:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Let’s Send J.D. Ford To Congress For the last couple of terms, Indiana’s Fifth Congressional District has been “represented” (note quotation marks) by Victoria Spartz. I will refrain from characterizing the Congr…

Let's Send J.D. Ford To Congress sheilakennedy.net/2026/01/lets...

29.01.2026 11:51 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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I Have A Litle List… Given the fire hose of illegality, unconstitutionality and immense stupidity coming out of the Trump administration on a daily if not hourly basis, people might be forgiven for failing to notice th…

I Have A Litle List... sheilakennedy.net/2026/01/i-ha...

28.01.2026 11:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Crime Rate One of the most successful political tools employed by MAGA bigots is fear–fear of dark-skinned people, and especially fear of crime (which, of course, they attribute to those dark-skinned fo…

The Crime Rate sheilakennedy.net/2026/01/the-...

27.01.2026 11:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It’s The Structure, Stupid! James Carville famously coined “It’s the economy, stupid!” reminding Bill Clinton to focus on economic issues. Unfortunately, given the civic illiteracy of most Americans, an exho…

It's The Structure, Stupid! sheilakennedy.net/2026/01/its-...

26.01.2026 11:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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No Right Without A Remedy One of the lessons one learns in law school is that there cannot be a right if there is no available remedy. When you think about it, that makes sense. If I have a right to do X, and you prevent me…

No Right Without A Remedy sheilakennedy.net/2026/01/no-r...

25.01.2026 11:28 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Epistemic Breakdown Epistemic breakdown is a fancy way of saying “destruction of a shared reality.” As a recent essay pointed out, that destruction is politically useful. We’ve just seen an example i…

Epistemic Breakdown sheilakennedy.net/2026/01/epis...

24.01.2026 11:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ICE Barbie Says We Need Papers Several years ago, when our older grandson was ten or eleven, my husband took him to New York, where he was most impressed by the museum at Ellis Island–especially the exhibit that explained …

ICE Barbie Says We Need Papers sheilakennedy.net/2026/01/ice-...

23.01.2026 11:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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