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Sarah C. Haan

@sarahhaan.bsky.social
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Law prof writing about corporate governance at the intersection of democracy. Shareholder voting rights, corporate elections, First Amendment

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Sarah C. Haan @sarahhaan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
1 week from today I will moderate a panel at the Brooklyn Book Festival featuring 2 exciting 2026 books! Sunday, Sept. 27 at 11:00 a.m. & a book signing to follow! @mecheledickerson.bsky.social @utexaslaw.bsky.social @bkbookfest.bsky.social @hlandemore.bsky.social #BKBF
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
BREAKING: The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 ruling, holds that federal coordinated party expenditure campaign-finance limits violate the First Amendment. Kavanaugh has the opinion for the court. Kagan has the dissent, joined by Sotomayor and Jackson. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
No, see, "overruled 90 years of precedent in order to expand presidential power" is the way *critics* describe it. *Your* side says: resisting intrusion into core executive functions, protecting the sanctity of the separation of powers, and acknowledging that the precedent has been whittled away.
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Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Overnight news: President Trump is moving to promote Judge Anna St. John, a former conservative legal activist who only recently won Senate approval to serve as a trial court judge in Louisiana, to a position on the conservative-majority 5th Circuit. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Trump moves to promote newly appointed conservative judge to key US appeals court
President Donald Trump is moving to promote a former conservative legal activist who only recently won U.S. Senate approval to serve as a trial court judge to a position on a key federal appeals court...
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Sarah C. Haan @sarahhaan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
New from me: "Entity voting" has survived its 1st legal challenge. A Delaware court ruled that it does not dilute the votes of humans in violation of the Del. Constitution, which requires “free & equal” elections. The "free & equal" text appears in many state constitutions. bit.ly/4ol1DYP
Delaware Entity Voting Should Sound Alarm Over Corporate Power, by Sarah Haan, Bloomberg Law
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 12/05/2026
A pair of press organizations are using their power as shareholders of media giant Paramount to demand that its owners David and Larry Ellison produce records related to two recent acquisitions. buff.ly/UVCvFNJ
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Investors Using Shareholder Power to Challenge Corrupt Paramount Deal
Freedom of the Press Foundation and Reporters Without Borders are using a rule under Delaware law to demand records.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
The U.S. is mirroring a pattern that has happened in authoritarian regimes around the world. When a government erects barriers to reproductive care, it doesn’t just cause death and suffering for women and their families. Such policies are often a first step in the gradual decline of democracies.
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Opinion | Banning Abortion a Hallmark of Authoritarian Regimes
Seda Saluk writes about how U.S. policy on abortion rights has started to mirror patterns seen in authoritarian regimes around the world.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance. The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income. They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive. Wanna fix fraud and abuse? Fix that.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
the point of the ballroom obvs has nothing to do with aesthetics. it's to create an architectural structure to honor the patronage networks that currently dominate US politics. previous WH venues hosted maybe a couple of hundred people; this hosts nearly 1,000 rich donors.
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes
Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre

Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast)

Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."
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Sarah C. Haan @sarahhaan.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Really looking forward to this:
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Sarah C. Haan @sarahhaan.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Rather extraordinary to be in the room when SEC Chair Atkins delivered these remarks to an audience of Delaware jurists & practitioners. www.sec.gov/newsroom/spe...
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SEC.gov | Keynote Address at the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance’s 25th Anniversary Gala
Keynote Address at the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance’s 25th Anniversary Gala Chairman Paul S. Atkins Newark, DE Oct. 9, 2025
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Join Sen. Jon Tester on October 14 in conversation with Ben Olinsky for the national debut of a bold new approach that rewrites the rules of money in politics to make Citizens United irrelevant. A panel discussion with Jeff Mangan, Sarah C. Haan, and Tom Moore will follow. ow.ly/FMqu50X75ae
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Undoing Citizens United and Reining in Super PACs
Please join the Center for American Progress for the national debut of a bold new approach that rewrites the rules of money in politics, combining a revolutionary state strategy to make Citizens United irrelevant with a federal plan to rein in super PACs once and for all.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/09/2025
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.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/09/2025
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
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
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.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
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
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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.
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
#NJ #women's #voting #history statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...
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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.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined. The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.
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Sarah C. Haan @sarahhaan.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
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." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
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A Corporate Government
Podcast Episode · Bite-Sized Business Law · 07/08/2025 · 44m
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
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
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Democracy & Destiny with Ciara Torres-Spelliscy
This is the new podcast by Professor Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social
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Sarah C. Haan @sarahhaan.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
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. on.ft.com/4l3UMjY
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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
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/05/2025
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 🧵
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FWC Indivisible @fwcindivisible.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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At Trump’s urging, USPS board to name FedEx official as postmaster general
David Steiner is a member of FedEx’s board and was previously the leader of sanitation company Waste Management.
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Barb Barrett @bbarrettnc.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
“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. alaskabeacon.com/2025/05/05/f...
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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.
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NPR @npr.org · 02/05/2025
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.
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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.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
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.
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Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Still no New York-founded law firm willing to go to court. Instead, the firms suing hail from Seattle, Boston, Houston and Chicago.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 07/04/2025
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.
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
One of things that strikes me as teach Fred Korematsu’s case in constitutional law is how few students have heard of the internment of Japanese Americans. I’ll teach it forever. 🇺🇸⚖️
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 03/04/2025
TODAY: Judge James Boasberg will hold a hearing on whether the Trump administration violated his court orders at 3 pm ET. ☎️ Call in to listen: 833-990-9400 Meeting ID: 049550816 Background:
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Judge Vows to Probe if Trump Officials Defied Court Order
Read more here.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
March saw the third-highest number of layoffs in U.S. history, and 80% of them were caused by DOGE This was before the tariffs It's just...unbelievable
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I spoke to a South Carolina woman today who is miscarrying - her fetus has no heartbeat - but the state's ban is preventing doctors from taking action. She has to walk around with a dead fetus for another week so she can get a FOURTH ultrasound. This is what bans do.
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Her Fetus Has No Heartbeat—They Still Won't Give Her An Abortion
South Carolina's ban is torturing a 31-year-old mom *right now*
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
BREAKING: Trump admin says it mistakenly deported a Maryland father who had *withholding of removal* back to El Salvador on March 15. Govt told court Monday it won't bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back. "What.The.Fuck..." one govt attorney told me. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com
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An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison
The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
As of Friday, there have been 46 cases in which federal judges have blocked Trump policies. The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits. Maybe it's not the judges?
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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 27/03/2025
This is the most dystopian shit I’ve ever seen
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/03/2025
Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Life comes at you fast, Skadden.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
This is great, about Paul Weiss, the beating heart of the Democratic establishment (Chuck Schumer's brother works there!), capitulating to Trump and letting everyone know that corporate money is ahead of any principle. www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
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Monopoly Round-Up: The Democrats' Corporate Lawyers Get the Humiliation They Deserve
The Democratic establishment brain was at the giant law firm Paul Weiss. They just bent the knee to Trump. Plus, tennis players revolt, and Google accidentally confesses to monopolization.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
If you're critical of the US government and you are planning to cross the US border any time soon, today is a good day to review EFF's border search pocket guide: www.eff.org/document/eff...
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EFF Border Search Pocket Guide
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