Sarah C. Haan

“If you can keep it.”

1. Every gun death is tragic.
2. The US is awash in guns & the right celebrates that fact.
3. We have a domestic terror problem. The right stymies efforts to address it & rewards "their" terrorists (e.g. Jan 6)
4. Trump = #1 violent rhetorician

TL:DR Don't let Trump Reichstag Fire this tragedy.

The US president trafficked & raped underage girls, the evidence is overwhelming, everyone knows it, and this country's elites & institutions are so broken, so insular, so decadent that we can't even bring ourselves to state it clearly, much less do anything about it.

Contemptible & pathetic.

if the project of the roberts court is to create an imperial SCOTUS and an imperial presidency, it is worth noting that one of those institutions has access to actual force, and one of them doesn’t

I dunno, maybe the Supreme Court majority could have the decency to bestir themselves to write an actual, you know, opinion, with their names on it, explaining their endorsement of using race and ethnicity as part of a national policy of harassing and intimidating non-white Americans.

The Supreme Court Just Gave the OK to Racial Profiling The court’s ruling allowing ICE to resume its indiscriminate round-ups of LA’s Latino residents can only be described as one thing.

Here’s my write up on the most racist decision to come out of the Supreme Court in a while. The court approved of Trump’s racial profiling of Latinos with Brett Kavanaugh saying being harassed based on the color of your skin is “common sense.”
My latest in @thenation

New Jersey’s Constitution Allowed Women to Vote in the 1700s Though the right was short-lived, it’s an example of how states can expand — and contract — voting rights.

#NJ #women's #voting #history statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...

The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined.

The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.

Donald Trump’s Authoritarian Playbook Is Based on Failures of US Corporate Democracy, not Foreign Dictators - ProMarket Sarah Haan writes that to understand American authoritarianism, it’s less useful to analyze the strategies of elected dictators around the globe than to look at how corporate leaders in the United Sta...

This created winners--people who now want to remake our politics on the corporate model.

www.promarket.org/2025/03/03/d...

TLDL: In corporate governance, we've nurtured passive citizenship, delegated voting, & unequal voting rights; normalized autocratic leadership & incumbent control of elections; failed to create meaningful collective action for the "citizens" of enterprise; & killed investor self-government.

A Corporate Government Podcast Episode · Bite-Sized Business Law · 07/08/2025 · 44m

So great to sit down w/ the Bite-Sized Business Law Podcast, @csautter.bsky.social & Sergio Gramitto Ricci to talk about democracy & corporations.

You can't understand what's going on in U.S. politics w/out understanding what happened to "corporate democracy."

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FYI If you haven't heard about Citizens United v. FEC, I talked about Citizens United on both episodes of my brand new podcast "Democracy & Destiny" which you can find here:
soundcloud.com/profciara #lawsky #electionlaw #constitutionallaw #corporatocracy

The most astonishing thing about the podcast is the interview with Patri Friedman, grandson of Milton Friedman, at about 9:00. Friedman is a backer of Prospera, a "startup city" in Honduras (a private political jurisdiction), who argues that "government should be run like a business."

Elon Musk and JD Vance want you to breed. A lot. A growing movement wants people to have more babies. The goal is not just more humans, but better ones.

Curious about efforts to introduce proxy voting to political elections? Listen to this podcast from @revealnews.org about the "pro-natalism" movement. Some pro-natalists argue that a "head of household" should get a proxy vote for each child.
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Now, political voices on the right are proposing stake-based/unequal voting and proxy voting for our political elections, in order to remake government on the business model.

Meanwhile, one-share-one-vote, which allocates votes according to "stake," and proxy voting, which allows one party to exercise many people's votes through delegation, became fundamental to corporate elections.

But legislators had miscalculated. It turned out that cumulative voting was easy to defeat by shrinking the board and classifying it. Also, states that did not mandate cumulative voting did better in the "race to the bottom" that ultimately made Delaware the leading jurisdiction for incorporations.

When cumulative voting swept corporate law in the last quarter of the 19th century, it smoothed the way for states to move to one-share-one-vote, which had not previously been the dominant rule.

It was rejected for political elections virtually everywhere, but enthusiastically embraced for corporate elections. The object of cumulative voting was to solve the problem of shareholder collective action. Advocates hoped that it could return some power to minority shareholders.

Though cumulative voting & ranked-choice voting are different, there are good reasons to connect them.

Cumulative voting started out as a political idea popularized by J.S. Mill. It was embraced by American political leaders, who tried to legislate it for both corporate & political elections.

New York’s quirky mayoral vote recalls a lost corporate tradition [FREE TO READ] Despite its near extinction, cumulative voting has much to recommend it

Thankful for the shout out in a new Lex column in @financialtimes.com. The piece (by John Foley) links cumulative voting in corporate governance to ranked-choice voting in NYC's mayoral primary last week.

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1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans.

These are their stories 🧵

From Alaska Capitol’s cafeteria, author and illustrator claims Pulitzer Prize | Alaska Beacon Tessa Hull's 'Feeding Ghosts' was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for memoirs and biographies, placing her among America's top authors.

“I’m having a surreal day. Now I’ve got to go back to making sandwiches.”

This may be the most wholesome story you read about the Pulitzers.

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If you're a military veteran at risk of foreclosure, NPR wants to hear from you The VA has abruptly ended the only low-interest, affordable loan modification option for thousands of vets who are behind on their mortgages. We want to hear your story.

The VA has abruptly ended the only low-interest, affordable loan modification option for thousands of vets who are behind on their mortgages.

If you're a vet at risk of foreclosure, we want to hear your story.

Last week, DHS and Secretary Noem's staff and spokespeople suggested that because Mr. Abrego Garcia had $1,100 in cash on him when arrested outside Home Depot seeking day labor, that was strong evidence that he was a member of MS-13.

I guess that raises a similar question about her $3,000.

So sorry Annemarie. ❤️

Still no New York-founded law firm willing to go to court. Instead, the firms suing hail from Seattle, Boston, Houston and Chicago.

NEW: Yesterday, the Justice Department sent armed marshals to warn former U.S. pardon attorney Liz Oyer not to disclose internal DOJ information during her Senate testimony.

Today, Oyer is speaking out to condemn the DOJ’s actions and defend the rule of law.