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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Outsiders don't know what happened in 2024, in the Cornell Univ. fraternity house, or afterward with campus police, Ithaca police, & the DA's office. It's very proper that DA now is, based on civil suit/rape allegations (predication), investigating possible crimes. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/n...

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Cornell Sexual Assault Investigation to Be Reopened

After outrage over allegations in a lawsuit, the Tompkins County district attorney will revisit the decision not to pursue criminal charges against seven fraternity members.

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

ICE personnel and their government lawyers should visit the African Burial Ground National Monument. It is next door to 26 Federal Plaza.

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Who was the last president not to interview candidates before nominating someone to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court? Ford in 1975 when he picked Stevens? George W. Bush in 2005 when he picked Miers? ??

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It is improper to congratulate a prosecutor on a court judgment. It is proper to note important prosecutorial work done well. Kosovo Special Chambers former chief prosecutor Jack Smith and his colleagues did so here, in the Thaci et al. cases.

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Thank you for speaking up, Frank Kendall (former Secretary of the Air Force). This is aimed first at General Dan Kaine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Hope that he reads this, really thinks about his oath, & then rethinks his refusal to make normative judgments.

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 01/09/2026

Rep. @aoc.bsky.social calls out Byron Donalds, Ron DeSantis, & the entire Republican Party for their silence on Trump ally Laura Loomer calling Black women — including Angie Nixon, Ayanna Pressley, Cori Bush, Ilhan Omar & Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson — "ghetto…black BITCHES.” 🔗 zeteo.com/subscribe

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A moment in the history of capital city architecture: Albert Speer, in his book Inside the Third Reich, described showing his father, also an architect, the huge scale models that Albert had created in 1939 for Hitler’s planned reconstruction of Berlin as “Germania.”

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Yes, speak and write truthfully: 1861-1865 in the U.S. was The War of the Rebellion. It also was The Slaveholders’ Rebellion. It was not a “Civil War” or a “War Between the States.”

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

U.S. Supreme Court Justice James C. McReynolds, who served from 1914-1941, died & was buried in his native Kentucky eighty years ago this week. Was McReynolds the worst person ever to serve on the Court? Here's a new #JacksonList essay.... thejacksonlist.com/2026/08/27/d...

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Dead McReynolds (August 1946)

U.S. Supreme Court Justice James Clark McReynolds, appointed in 1914 by President Woodrow Wilson, a fellow southern Democrat, was an accomplished person who had some redeeming qualities and kindly …

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Pres. Trump to reporters on 8/21 re the economy: “[Treasury sec’y Bessent] has a good touch, a very good natural touch, for the bonds & interest…. We have many types of intervention — that’s one. The ultimate intervention is our military. If we have to use that, we will.” What?

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

In Nuremberg, Germany, last month, my student Alannah Lockitt interviewed me for her podcast. We discussed Justice Robert H. Jackson, his 1945-1946 role as U.S. chief prosecutor in Nuremberg of accused Nazi war criminals, etc. It was fun & substantive. Here’s video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFZP....

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How the Nuremberg Trials Changed International Law | Professor John Q. Barrett

YouTube video by Access Point Collective

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Former ProPublica president & media lawyer Richard J. Tofel has published on Amazon Kindle an important new essay, “Three Branches, Three Amendments: A Constitution for Our Time.” @dicktofel.bsky.social www.amazon.com/Three-Branch...

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We really wanted to do this series - and are so grateful that THE expert on copwatching Jocelyn Simonson @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social made time for such an informative conversation.

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Known & generally not aired out: White academics who lie, misbehave, plagiarize,….

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

"People” have recommended to Justice Alito that he “decide some cases this way and some cases the other way so that people will say, ‘Well, he’s objective, because sometimes he favors this side and other times...’” Who would dare recommend to a Supreme Court justice how he or she should vote?

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Good reporting on Flock cameras, detecting cars & generating lots of data on their (our) locations. Prof. Citron raises the core question, which is about our values: Should you have “room just to be, to go about your day feeling lost in the crowd”? @daniellecitron.bsky.social

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It was good of Tyler Austin Harper to mention heroic Holman S. Melcher & the 20th Maine…. #Gettysburg

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Attorney General Blanche Attorney General! — blanch.

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Charles Evans Hughes. You—starting with Republicans, his party heirs—should know more about Charles Evans Hughes. abovethelaw.com/2026/08/he-l...

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He Left The Bench For The Ballot, Then Came Back For More - Above the Law

A resignation, a heartbreaker of an election, and an unlikely return.

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

It is shameful and wrong for any Senator to vote to confirm any nominee who is a 2020 election denier or a January 6 minimizer. #Truth

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

It appears that one of these nominees did this craven, shameful dance, refusing just to state plain facts about who won which presidential election, in front of his mother!

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I hope that former DAG Rosenstein, former FBI Director Wray, and former Office of Special Counsel Mueller personnel will address this significant issue/possibly very serious failing.

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Yes, the Supreme Court works, which means that the public respects it and losing parties obey it, as a function of it getting enough of its decisions, in *our* (the public’s) views, right.

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Pretend that we had a proper U.S. Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney Pirro would have resigned or Acting Attorney General Blanche would have fired her. But of course we don’t. Misuse of federal law enforcement power to try to cover up Reflecting Pool contractor incompetence shows that plainly.

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Charges Dropped in Reflecting Pool Case as Prosecutors Say Work Was ‘Botched’ There should be serious consequences for the Interior Department officials whom Ms. Pirro accused of deception. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...

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Charges Dropped Against Ex-Olympian David Hearn Accused of Damaging Reflecting Pool

A former Olympian will not face trial after federal prosecutors acknowledged that the Trump administration’s claims of vandalism were false.

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

On Monday, July 27, Michael R. Dreeben, a former Deputy Solicitor General of the United States, delivered at Chautauqua Institution its 22nd annual Robert H. Jackson Lecture on the Supreme Court of the United States. @chq1874.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7ob...

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The 22nd Annual Robert H. Jackson Lecture on the Supreme Court of the U.S. | Michael R. Dreeben

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Update: Hadi Matar now is on federal trial, charged with three terrorism crimes for his attack on Salman Rushdie, in the Robert H. Jackson United States Courthouse in Buffalo, New York. @uscourts.bsky.social @buffalonews.com @chq1874.bsky.social

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Listen to U.S. chief prosecutor Robert H. Jackson's closing statement at Nuremberg, the post-World War II trial of the top Nazi war criminals. Justice Jackson delivered his two-hour address to the court on July 26, 1946--80 years ago this weekend.

Newspaper clipping photograph of Jackson delivering his closing address at Nuremberg.

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Great, expert discussion of Todd Blanche’s law-breaking and unethical behavior. No honest, oath-keeping Senator will vote to confirm him as U.S. Attorney General.

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

My friend Moritz Fuchs was born 101 years ago today. He became a World War II soldier, U.S. Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson’s bodyguard at Nuremberg, and then a Catholic priest. Here’s a #JacksonList essay I wrote when Father Fuchs died in 2018. thejacksonlist.com?s=Fuchs+Spir...

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Search Results for “Fuchs Spiritual bodyguard shrapnel” – The Jackson List

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

On October 15, 2026, I will have the honor of delivering the New York County Lawyers Association's 59th Charles Evans Hughes Memorial Lecture. My topic: “Presidential Material” Should Be “Supreme Court Material,” and Vice Versa: The Charles Evans Hughes Model.

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

E. Jean Carroll, I’m sorry that you suffered these assaults, physical, then verbal, by Donald Trump. Thank you for seeking legal recourse, and to you and your lawyers for winning it. We call it “the justice system.” Sometimes, such as here, it lives up to its name. @ejeancarroll.bsky.social

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I ran into Sen. John Cornyn in a hotel last week. We spoke pleasantly for a minute. I regret deeply not saying that he’s politically free now to do what’s right, & that voting against the nomination of law-breaker Todd Blanche to be Attorney General should top his list of patriotic things to do.

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Outrageous. Read the First Amendment: “press.” Shame on the SDNY U.S. Attorney’s Office & the FBI for preparing & serving such lacking a compelling interest subpoenas on NYT reporters, and in heavy-handed ways. DOJ, when acting lawfully, is not a dictator’s anti-embarrassment army.

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Hello from Nuremberg, where it’s pretty easy to see that the opposite of birthright citizenship (the U.S. Constitution, & our melting pot of U.S. patriotism) is the Nuremberg Laws (Nazi Germany, 1935). Read @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social for details.

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Yes, up— Graham Platner, please withdraw. Maine Democratic Party, please, if she will run (making a single term promise, for her happy long term future, & to improve our politics?), please nominate Heather Cox Richardson. @hcrichardson.bsky.social

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

In 1941, U.S. Attorney General Robert H. Jackson was supposed to give the Independence Day address to the National Mall crowd in Washington, DC. But the event was rained out. So he gave the address over nationwide radio. Here's a #JacksonList essay with details. thejacksonlist.com/2026/07/05/i...

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Independence Day Address (1941)

This is a reprise posting of the essay below. It seems to be on point given the extreme heat, rain, lightning storms, and temporary evening evacuation of the National Mall that were parts of this F…

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Thank you, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, of Maine, Bowdoin, the Grand Army of the Republic, Gettysburg, and, for almost my whole working life, my office wall.

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

In 1935-36, Robert H. Jackson prosecuted the U.S. tax case against ex-Treasury Secretary Andrew W. Mellon. After the litigating was done, Jackson's bosses wrote to him, expressing thanks. And he shared that with his team. Here's a #JacksonList essay with details. thejacksonlist.com/2026/07/01/b...

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Bosses’ Thanks to the Mellon Case Team (1936)

In 1935 and 1936, Robert H. Jackson, Assistant General Counsel heading the Bureau of Internal Revenue in the United States Treasury Department, led the U.S. government team that litigated a major t…

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Robert H. Jackson did complete law school. Nits aside, this essay is strong, wise, and worth reading. (Free Press or someone, post a complementary link?)

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Nina Totenberg is very smart, Court-expert, classy, deeply kind, and human. This was yesterday. I look forward to hearing, reading, and learning from her next reporting. www.npr.org/sections/npr...

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NPR retracts story about Alito retirement

A misheard comment led to the error

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Rory Little posted a comment on SCOTUSblog live this morning that @strictscrutiny.bsky.social will have a field day about Justice Kavanaugh writing the Court’s opinion about girls’ sports teams. Little joked that maybe he shouldn’t be cross-branding…. Then, in seconds, someone deleted the comment.

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Please don’t retire now from the Supreme Court, Justices Thomas and Alito.

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