From today's Los Angeles Daily Journal (behind a paywall) - an article on the new Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court, Leo E. Strine, Jr. Being from Delaware, home of corporate headquarters for many businesses because of their tax laws, I would have expected Strine to be one of Jamie Dimon's acolytes, but he appears to be somewhat the opposite.
Strine was a corporate attorney for years, and then spent 15 years in Delaware's Court of Chancery (an almost unique court, based there because of the many corporate headquarters, it basically arbitrates arguments between the corporations) before being appointed to the Supreme Court.
Strine was at a conference in Coronado this past weekend, and was quoted as saying some very interesting things. On Citizens United, he said "Much of its reasoning is based on a selective reading of corporate law sources strung together to stand for the proposition that as a general matter of American corporate law, for-profit corporations may treat as ends other ends than simply stockholder welfare." On Hobby Lobby, he said I observe that the fact that members of the same family hold all of a corporation's shares does not invariably means they share the same views about the company's business plan,much less the same religious beliefs." On ACA, he said it had the collective act of constraining "the government's ability to extend the social safety net at the same time that economic inequality is increasing and the middle class is eroding"
He seems to be an interesting guy. Very corporate, but not entirely evil. Maybe a sign of the times?