Claudine Gay to Teach 'Research Ethics' Class
DAVID STROM 10:40 AM | April 19, 2024
   
 
No, this is not the Babylon Bee. It is real life on an Ivy League campus.

Claudine Gay, as you recall, is the utterly disgraced former president of Harvard University who put herself in the crosshairs by defending calls for genocide and then was exposed as a serial plagiarist.
 

It seems right for a professor to teach research ethics to Ivy League students. Who better?


I read the news earlier this week on The College Fix, and never got around to writing about it. But as it is Friday and I am in need of a bit of humor to end my week, I decided to take a stab at it.

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/04/19/claudine-gay-to-teach-research-ethics-class-n3786787#google_vignette

 

Trump 2024 - Nobody Rides for Free

Biden DOJ Enlists Kristen Clarke, Who Defended Black Nationalists Charged With Voter Intimidation, To Combat Voter Intimidation

Chuck Ross   
April 18, 2024

Justice Department civil rights chief Kristen Clarke released guidelines this week on how to report cases of voter intimidation, asserting that "voter intimidation has no place in our democracy." Years earlier, Clarke defended a New Black Panther Party member who threatened a Philadelphia poll worker while brandishing a club.

As a civil rights attorney in 2009, Clarke lobbied the Obama administration to drop a case against members of the New Black Panther Party charged with intimidating voters and poll workers in Philadelphia. Two members of the militant group, one holding a billy club, called black poll workers working for the GOP "race traitors" and said there "would be hell to pay" because of the workers' party affiliation.

A Justice Department lawyer told a federal oversight panel that Clarke, then a lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, "was lobbying for the dismissal of the New Black Panther Party case before it was dismissed." Clarke during her 2021 Senate confirmation hearing dodged questions about her involvement, telling lawmakers that "there were many people who deemed that a weak case." The Bush administration filed the case in January 2009, but the Obama administration dropped it months later, drawing widespread allegations of political interference.

Clarke's involvement in the matter could raise concerns that the Biden administration will apply a double standard to voter intimidation cases in the upcoming election. Some Republicans have cited the case of Douglass Mackey, convicted of voter suppression for posting memes on social media that encouraged black voters to vote by text message for Hillary Clinton. Mackey, who was arrested days after Biden took office, was sentenced last year to seven months in prison.

more
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-doj-enlists-kristen-clarke-who-defended-black-nationalists-charged-with-voter-intimidation-to-combat-voter-intimidation/

NIL works in college.  Why not politics?

Because you are taking the image/name/likeness of a private person and using it for commercial endorsements.  You can't state or imply publicly a person's commercial endorsement of something without their permission.

However, if an athlete makes gratuitous public statements about a product, like in an interview or something, then that commercial entity could use those words without paying NiL because the player put those words in the public domain of their own volition.  Image and likeness would still require compensation, though.

Trump is a public political figure, so his public statements regarding political matters, including any endorsements, are a matter of public record and can be repeated by anyone.  For either positive or negative purposes.