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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“__You__ meet with Liz Truss.”

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

These are Dec. 2024 views of October 7, 2023, Hamas crimes in the Nir Oz kibbutz in Israel -- horrific and indefensible, all of it.

Exterior of a home in kibbutz Nir Oz, Israel, that was attacked by Hamas criminals on October 7, 2023.

Interior of a home in kibbutz Nir Oz, Israel, that was attacked by Hamas criminals on October 7, 2023.

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

In a 1958 letter, @uchicagolaw.bsky.social professor Philip B. Kurland commented that these claims lack objective content: “I find neither of these suggestions one which would afford any criteria [for interpreting the Constitution] other than subjective ones.”

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

Some have equated the U.S. Constitution with “wisdom.” Others have equated the Constitution with “truth, beauty and the good life.”

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Serious moral opportunity for any of the Cornell accused: Choose to cooperate with law enforcement and tell the truth. I hope that families, others who are closest, and lawyers are discussing this fully with them and giving good advice. @cornelluniversity.bsky.social

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hundreds, maybe thousands, of us have at least hearsay information…. general knowledge…. We wait and watch. (Yes, this amounts to, I acknowledge, a nudge….)

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Cleveland & area friends: Please join us tomorrow at Case Western Reserve University School of Law: "The Legacy of Nuremberg: An International Conference Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Nuremberg Judgment." Program details & the registration link: case.edu/law/about/ev...

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International Law Weekend Midwest: The legacy of Nuremberg: An International Conference Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Nuremberg Judgment | School of Law | Case Western Reserve University

Eighty years ago, on October 1, 1946, the Nuremberg Tribunal issued its historic judgment, convicting leaders of Nazi Germany of war crimes, crimes ag...

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Read Justice Sotomayor’s written, brief, reasoned dissent. Two excerpts: * The Court’s action is “stunning[].” * “Today, the Court, as it has too often lately, chooses to overlook th[e] principle [that it is a court of review, not a court of first view,] precisely when it matters most.”

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here’s the Court’s order yesterday, vacating the Court of Appeals’s administrative stay, allowing TN to (try to) execute Pike before that ct. could consider her arguments & the record. The Supreme Court ordered this on its shadow docket & wrote no explanation. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Botched execution. There is a precedent —an awful one: Willie Francis. Have we in the U.S., starting with the Supreme Court, become more decent since then? Tennessee Fails to Execute Woman After 2 Doses of Lethal Injection www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...

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Tennessee Death Row Inmate Christa Pike Still Alive After Attempts to Execute Her, Lawyers Say

Christa Pike was convicted of murdering a classmate in 1995. It was not clear what went wrong in the execution or what her current medical condition was.

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

Here's video of a 2023 Robert H. Jackson Center program on Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her Cornell mentor Prof. Robert Cushman, etc. #RBG @irincarmon.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib7u...

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John Q. Barrett & Irin Carmon (2023) on Robert Jackson, Robert Cushman, & Ruth Bader Ginsburg

YouTube video by RobertHJacksonCenter

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

In the context of the horrific Cornell rape allegations, think of Ruth Bader (Ginsburg): * Cornell '54 * civil liberties student * law professor & ACLU lawyer-trailblazer for women's rights * Supreme Court Justice author of U.S. v. Virginia, the pinnacle decision on women's equal rights.

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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 · 14/09/2026

I watched but did not enjoy. LaFleur is still deficient.

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Coach looks glazed/not still with it.

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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

Speer's father looked at his son's architectural models for Hitler and said, “Ihr seid komplett verrückt geworden!” (“You’ve gone completely crazy!”)

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

Here’s a photograph of one Speer model of his imagined Germania: germanhistorydocs.org/en/nazi-germ....

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Nazi Germany (1933–1945) | German History in Documents and Images

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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 · 25/08/2026

How about “individuals who…?”

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Amen! (But thanks also for the Awomen & all Apeople.)

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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

Tofel proposes, with draft language, constitutional amendments to end partisan gerrymandering, elderly presidents, and politicized Supreme Court appointments. This essay is very good, and wise. I hope that it ignites political action.

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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 · 16/08/2026

Very good, and yes very expert, conversation -- thank you.

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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

Or major—you’re assuming that a CI investigation would have concluded that every American was under no Russian influence.

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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

So sorry; every good wish for fast, full recovery.

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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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