
Katie Porter received royalties from books she required students to purchase during tenure as a law professor
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Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., earned thousands of dollars in royalty fees from law school textbooks that she required her own students to purchase for law courses she taught.
Kyle Morris covers politics for Fox News. On Twitter: @RealKyleMorris.
Since her arrival in Washington, Porter has campaigned on making education more affordable for Americans and stated in 2020 that the American political system has "favored the wealthy and well-connected for far too long" as "powerful people live in one reality while the rest of us live in another."
For several of the courses she taught, Porter made it a requirement for her students to purchase textbooks she authored and received royalties from, according to documents obtained through a FOIA request to the UC Irvine.