John Q. Barrett

Jackson List: United States Citizens By Birth Robert Houghwout Jackson was born in 1892 in the family farmhouse in Spring Creek, Pennsylvania. His parents also had been born in that area, as had their parents, and so forth, back to ancestors w…

Justice Robert H. Jackson had no birth certificate. But he knew that under the U.S. Constitution, his U.S. birth made him a U.S. citizen. He wrote that privately about Porter Pemberton, & publicly about Fred Korematsu.

Here’s a new #JacksonList post with details.
thejacksonlist.com/2026/03/09/j...

I wonder how she and her husband Charles Black (who you properly mentioned above) spoke in later years about the YLS men’s treatment of Ellen Peters?

The one was ____? (Not Bickel, I think.)

“Unconditional surrender” is relinquishment of sovereignty & territory. E.g., in May 1945, when Nazi Germany surrendered unconditionally, Germany ceased to exist. The land became Allied-occupied. The German people became prisoners of those occupiers.

The U.S. today seeks the end, for now, of Iran?

Kristi Noem’s seeming crimes are more domestic than international. So maybe not a Nuremberg. But maybe state prosecution, in Minnesota, for instance. And maybe, soon enough, U.S. prosecution by a reconstructed Department of Justice.

Envoy Noem needs to consult now, for 2029 if not soon, a good criminal defense lawyer.

I think that line, or something like it, was Jack Nicholson's in "A Few Good Men."

"From Controversy to Conversation" Talking the Hard History of Baltimore's "Confederate Monuments," March 5

A great success story: @marthasjones.bsky.social on Baltimoreans putting what once was a block that elevated Chief Justice Roger B. Taney to much higher uses.
#DredScott #slavery #equality #liberty
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March 4, 1933: Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes administering the presidential oath to Franklin D. Roosevelt.

March 4, 1933, United States greatness:
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes administers the presidential oath to Franklin D. Roosevelt.
@scotushistory.bsky.social
@rooseveltinstitute.org

Bad: Lawyers who still work law firms that capitulated to Trump administration threats.

Worse: U.S. Department of Justice lawyers who are following political orders—on/off/on again—to defend illegal attacks on non-capitulating law firms.

(And great: Those stand-up law firms/lawyers.)

I recall 1976, dimly, as “Here we are/aren’t we great to be this old?!/look at all this red, white, and blue.”
It would be better this time, 2026, to study, teach, and debate 1776 and U.S. history since—what have “we” been to what are we now. Use this anniversary as an opportunity to become smarter.

I worked in a SCIF for seven years—locks, guards, walls, no windows, very controlled access,… real national security.

214. The Court's (Selective) Impatience is a Vice The only theme uniting Monday night's twin grants of emergency relief is the Republican appointees' willingness to upend long-settled limits on the Court's power when, but only when, they *want* to.

As I explain via the latest “One First,” the only theme that unites the Supreme Court’s (unrelated) grants of emergency relief Monday night in the California transgender student and New York redistricting cases is what might be called “selective judicial impatience.”

And that’s *not* a good thing:

And ugly.

Super, factual, important brief.

Yesterday I filed an #AmicusCuriae brief at #SCOTUS in the birthright citizenship case. It presents stories of 3 families of Japanese ancestry--w/o legal allegiance to the USA--to show citizenship derives from birth on US soil, not parental loyalties.
#lawsky #skystorians
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POOR-im

In 1945-1946, the United States & allied nations, prosecuting Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg, established that military aggression was an international crime.

This evening, the 2025 U.S. film "Nuremberg" was to be shown at Arasbaran Cultural Center in Tehran, Iran.

Now canceled?--websites down.

Under U.S. law plus historical practice, this is basis for a serious national security crimes investigation. It appears to be probable cause for arrest.

But now it’s just Friday night.

At least “This part of my job is painful.”

No creature, including a person or a dog, should be hanged. But cameras do sometimes capture something that looks to be an ashamed, “hangdog look.”

Bang up job by the DOJ lawyer here

Court: So you can drop them off wherever and as long as you don't know someone is literally standing there waiting to shoot, that's fine?

Defense counsel: "In short, yes."

Epstein Files Are Missing Records About Woman Who Made Claim Against Trump

We seem to be nearing the heart of the story, and a lot will depend on the nerve of the journalists--NPR, the NYT, etc--to stay on this story relentlessly. Will they give it the same kind of coverage they gave Biden's age--i.e., full bore, around the clock, 50 opeds?
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

Deep condolences to you and to all who had her in their lives.

The 22nd Annual Robert H. Jackson Lecture on the Supreme Court of the United States — Michael Dreeben - Chautauqua Institution Welcome to Chautauqua Institution! We are a community of artists, educators, thinkers, faith leaders and friends dedicated to exploring the best in humanity.

Monday, July 27, 2026:
Michael Dreeben, superb U.S. lawyer and U.S. Supreme Court advocate, will give Chautauqua Institution's 22nd annual Robert H. Jackson Lecture on the Supreme Court of the United States.
Click below for details and ticket info.
@chq1874.bsky.social
www.chq.org/event/the-22...

Who can forget FBI Director William Webster doing this in Lake Placid in 1980 after the “miracle on ice?”

This vandalism — all of it — must not stand. Learn, speak, teach, resist, vote, win, serve, repair.

Racist talk. Another racist moment. Seems to be a high racism person.

Thanks, CUNY @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social.

This will be a great conference. Please do join us!