Kate Jackson

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Professor of Law at a regional midwest public law school. Political theory, corps & admin. 🧶👽👾🧙🏽‍♀️🦅🎮 My views are my own and reposts are not endorsements. SSRN author page https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3568227

“I think they’re trying to turn it into a venture capital model,” said Dr. Berg, an expert in computational and systems biology medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. “Why the federal government should be investing in that, I don’t know
The proposed legislation also comes just as Delaware seeks to retain its status as the preeminent legal home for companies, even in the wake of attacks on its brand from the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, and others. The principal drafter of the proposed legislation, John Mark Zeberkiewicz, said the measure could allow AI agents to engage in just about any business activity — from providing coding services to signing contracts, or even filing and defending lawsuits. He also noted that it seeks to protect owners of new Artificial Intelligence Companies from facing legal liability from actions the AI might take.
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The self-interest of merchants did not tame the passions. It became infused with them, and turned the greatest of merchants back into princes carrying all the undisciplined appetites of old. They built a new and stranger tyranny: not the old corporate machine obedient to shareholders, but a machine that uses shareholder capitalism’s legal forms while escaping its restraints. SpaceX’s astronaut-in-chief is not maximising shareholder value. He is using the instruments of shareholder capitalism to raise enormous amounts of capital while freeing himself from any restraints from those who provide it, so that he can spend the proceeds on Mars, humanoid robots, artificial intelligence or whatever next satisfies his ambition.
The Central Argument The conservatives we met believe democratic institutions have abandoned their own founding values. In their view, the American government is and has always been conditional on a moral foundation organized around Faith, Family, Freedom, and Place, and the purpose of democratic government is to protect and uphold this foundation. Now, however, the very institutions built to protect it have become disconnected from, or even threatening to, that moral foundation. Support for democratic norm deviation is therefore not experienced as a rejection of democracy by our participants; rather, it can be a logical response often driven by an impulse to restore democracy.
Clint (70s, MI) and his wife call it the “raging river,” a cultural current so powerful it has pulled their own children from faith and conservative values into an amoral progressive agenda, fracturing their family in the process. Together, Clint and his wife attend a weekly group at their church [of] Catholic women who gather to pray for children who have wandered from the faith. I’m not sure how Democrats win over a voter who’s motivated not by unemployment, or the the Iranian nuclear program, or the price of eggs—but is rather lashing out because they’re angry that their children rejected their political views.
Micron is weighing on the sector. Demand for its DRAM and NAND flash memory chips has risen so sharply that it is threatening to make building data centers more expensive and to drive up costs for smartphones, factory equipment and more. “We have never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly,” a spokesman for Apple said to explain why the company is raising prices. Hours later, Microsoft said it would raise the price of its Xbox game consoles. Observers are now calling it “A.I.-flation,” a prospect that could complicate central bankers’ push to tame rising costs.
The Supreme Court has declared that executive power gives the president the authority to reshape these agencies at will. Many are framing this as a short-term political win for President Trump, viewing it through a narrow, partisan lens. That misses the bigger picture: This will persist long after his administration. The real casualty here is economic growth. Without internal pushback or regulatory continuity between administrations, businesses face an era of unpredictable policy whiplash — making long-term strategic planning much more complicated.
This line from the Trump v. Slaughter ruling jumped out at me: “Not only the fact of independence but also the appearance of independence is key to the Federal Reserve’s design.”
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Screenshot of White House web page announcing change to Smithsonian: “restoring truth and sanity to America history”
“Ring girls” scantily costumed in defaced, bedazzled American flags in honor of trumps birthday circus
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About 40 percent of the full-time professors at the institution received letters in early December offering them separation packages or early retirement as part of leaders’ attempts to address a budget deficit. If they do not accept the offers by mid-month, the paperwork stated, they could face “involuntary reduction” in the new year on less favorable terms.
Excerpt of Paxton speech: This campaign is not about red versus blue. It's about so much more. My opponent is the most extreme radical that Democrats have ever nominated. He's even running a vegan campaign, whatever that is. He goes by a few names that you may all have heard of. Some people know him as Tofu Talarico. Some people call him Six-Gender Jimmy. I've even heard some people call him James Talafrico. And others refer to him simply as Low-T Talarico.
Thank you note from my business law students
Based on self-reported information from 941 scientists in charge of terminated grants, the study found that nearly half of those with projects related to racial minorities identified as Black, Indigenous, or a person of color. And 60 percent of those with projects terminated for gender-related reasons identified as a sexual or gender minority, including about 16 percent who identified as transgender or nonbinary. According to the analysis, women of color and trans/nonbinary researchers had nearly three times higher odds of losing a racial equity-related grant compared to white cisgender men working on such grants. LGBTQ investigators had more than 10-fold higher odds of losing a gender-related grant compared to heterosexual, cisgender researchers leading those kinds of grants.
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Notice the further implications here: in some ways, this is about Trump admin bugaboos like diversity and climate change, but in others, the Trump Admin and state regulators are pretty explicit about stamping out all challenges to management (see below on Indiana’s law). And if regulators have the freedom to decide (on a theory of what counts as wealth maximization) which boards can be challenged by shareholders and which cannot, that leaves corporate management awfully … dependent … on the state to maintain their positions, with all the implications that follow.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Wednesday delivered a televised broadside against progressivism, a political philosophy he described as an existential threat to America and the principles that founded it 250 years ago. “Progressivism seeks to replace the basic premises of the Declaration of Independence and hence our form of government,” Thomas said in a speech at the University of Texas Austin Law School pegged to the nation’s upcoming milestone birthday.
In 1993, The New York Times reported that Thomas, who was fresh off his bruising confirmation battle at the time, planned to serve on the court until 2034. “The liberals made my life miserable for 43 years, and I’m going to make their lives miserable for 43 years,” he reportedly told a clerk.
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Even taking those forecasts at face value, we are aware of no serious company ever having gone public at anything close to the enterprise value-to-sales multiple apparently being contemplated here. (Facebook, for example, went public on 11 times EV/forward year sales.) This would be a moonshot valuation inspired by a healthy dose of moonshine. Success hinges on the premise that Musk’s personal brand, the lack of terrestrial competitors, and unbounded retail enthusiasm can propel the offering off the launchpad and into deep space
The company’s shareholder registry presents a major structural constraint. Two decades of private fundraising have left SpaceX with a cap table that looks like the Mos Eisley Cantina from Star Wars, with a heterogeneous mix of venture funds, sovereign wealth funds, crossover managers, strategic corporate partners, and thousands of employees. Each of these groups has different mandates, return targets, and exit timelines. What unites them is a humongous paper gain and a desire to turn at least part of it into cash as soon as possible.
Incredibly proud and humbled to share that today the University of Cincinnati Board of Trustees approved the renaming of our College as the Donald P. Klekamp College of Law, in recognition of a $43.2 million gift from the Klekamp family, in honor of their father, Donald P. Klekamp, (JD ‘57) — the largest gift in our College's nearly 200-year history. Donald Klekamp is a retired founding partner of the Cincinnati-based firm Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL — one of our city's most distinguished legal institutions — and a visionary UC alumnus, civic leader, and philanthropist. He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from UC Law in 1993 and was honored as a Greatest Living Cincinnatian in 2023. In 1995, he endowed the Donald P. Klekamp Professorship of Law, a chair that continues to support research and teaching at this College today. This chair is currently held by Professor Michael Solimine, known to many within the UC Law community as a remarkable teacher and scholar over the past several decades.  Donald Klekamp credits much of his success to his late wife, Marianne Klekamp, BS '56, a fellow Bearcat and a woman of extraordinary warmth and civic commitment. The Klekamps were married for 65 years. Together, they supported count nonprofits and schools across greater Cincinnati. p College of Law at the University of Cincinnati!
UC law gets $43m gift from family of alumnus
Meelo meatloaf and little Ollie - “dogs”
NYtimes headline showing that Trump is ordering shs to pay tsa even without congressional funding
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In the wake of the October 2025 No Kings protests, David Brooks identified some of the core issues facing the movement. Yes, he wrote, they are fundamentally “pro-American,” but they lack a vision. “Donald Trump has a vision. Trump is a culture. He has a core story: The elites have betrayed you. But he doesn’t only have that story; he has a culture of MAGA,” Brooks said. He gives you identity. He gives you belonging. It takes a counterculture to best the culture that Donald Trump is leading.”
We’re all gonna die might as well do it 20 times before you know exactly when to press O and R2
Headline from NYtimes deal book: Investors Question Whether Quick Peace in Iran Is Possible Global markets are under pressure again amid doubts that the fighting in the Middle East can end anytime soon.
The tax structure also has not kept up with spending, and state lawmakers are currently trying to close a budget gap estimated at $10 billion to 12 billion over the next four years. Lawmakers plan to spend the bulk of the money generated by the new tax on core government services. After months of negotiations over the precise details, they also agreed to devote 5 percent of the new revenue to child care programs and early learning opportunities and, to help ensure the governor’s support, to expand a tax credit for lower-income families. Wealthy residents and entrepreneurs have long been drawn to Washington because of its lack of an income tax.
Twitter post from Massie demanding to release names of congressmen using public money to pay off their sex harassment accusers
NYtimes headline reading: Senator Helps Officers Forcibly Remove Protesting Veteran From Hearing
Twitter post with a photo of Trump in the gilded Oval Office, quoting “"Spain said we can't use their bases. We could use their bases if we want. We could just fly in and use it. Nobody is gonna tell us not to use it." Spoken like a true rapist.”
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We have nothing written that tells us that we have been terminated because of this reason or that reason, because of changing programs or whatever. Nothing. Not an email, not a letter,” Temu said. “We even submitted a [Freedom of Information Act] request for that … and they only gave us copies of our past contracts.”
Fortney referred to the hoodie-wearing Newman as “Mr. Hoodie” throughout his blame-the-victim broadside, suggested his own background in self-defense made him an expert in reading body language, and boasted that instead of helping Newman to his feet “some of the guys I trained with would’ve made sure Mr. Hoodie didn’t get up.”
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