John Q. Barrett

This lawsuit is some combination of an inverse of the Pentagon Papers case (DoD here acted first), and what amounts to Pentagon Papers II. See New York Times v. United States (1971).

The Civil Suit That Could Derail the Comey Prosecution (Again) Daniel Richman, a central figure in the now-dismissed criminal case against James Comey, files suit over the government's handling of his property.

SCOOP: Dan Richman, a key figure in the now-dismissed case against James Comey, has filed suit over the gov't's handling of data seized from his devices.

He says his constitutional rights were violated — and seeks to block DOJ from further use of the materials.

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First Contra, then Iran--

* Oct. 1986: Hasenfus's public capture confirmed that the U.S. was illegally providing arms to the Nicaraguan Contras

* Early Nov.: press revealed U.S. arms trades with Iran for hostages

* Nov. 25: U.S. admitted a $ link: diversion of Iran deal profits to Contra support

Kate, thank you for paying attention in grade school, high school, and since then.

Search Results for “"Thanksgiving in Nuremberg"” – The Jackson List

Happy Thanksgiving!

For the U.S.--and all should make it theirs too--holiday, here from the #JacksonList archive are some on-topic essays, including "Thanksgiving in Nuremberg (1945)."
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November 25, 1986: President Reagan speaking to White House press.

November 25, 1986: President Reagan turning the White House press room podium over to U.S. Attorney General Edwin P. Meese, III.

November 25, 1986: White House spokesman Larry Speakes, President Reagan, and U.S. Attorney General Edwin P. Meese III, in the White House press room.

November 25, 1986: U.S. Attorney General Edwin P. Meese, III, speaking to White House press.

November 25, 1986: President Reagan, then AG Meese, disclosing discovery of the diversion of funds.

Iran-Contra--
Oct. 1986: Illegal U.S. military support to Nicaraguan Contras becomes public.
Nov. 1986: U.S. arms sales to Iran for hostages become public.
Nov. 25, 1986: AG Edwin Meese announces that U.S. officials diverted Iran arm sales proceeds to buy arms for the Contras.

Iran-->Contra.

Bretton Sciaroni, Influential American in Cambodia, Dies at 69 (Published 2021)

Bretton Sciaroni provided some legal advice to NSC staff during Iran-Contra. (His advice concerned the legality of U.S. aid to Nicaraguan Contras, not the legality of the diverting to that endeavor the proceeds from selling arms to Iran--this obit has that wrong.)
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General John DeWitt…
Incarceration for ethnicity.
Japanese-Americans.
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YouTube video by Bloomberg Television Trump to Clinton: 'No, You're the Puppet'

It was all here, nine years ago, when Trump’s only answer when Clinton called out his puppet behavior for Russia was to accuse her….
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Professor J.R.R. and Mrs. Edith Tolkien invitation to a 21st birthday party for their son Christopher John Reuel Tolkien.

Meanwhile, on this evening eighty years ago in Oxford...

Professor J.R.R. Tolkien's and Mrs. Edith Tolkien's invitation to a 21st birthday party for their son, Christopher John Reuel Tolkien.

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Opening at Nuremberg (November 21, 1945) Eighty years ago today, on Wednesday, November 21, 1945, United States Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, serving as U.S. Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality, delivered to th…

On November 21, 1945--80 years ago--Justice Robert H. Jackson, chief U.S. prosecutor, delivered in Nuremberg his superb opening statement in the international trial of leading Nazi war criminals.

This new Jackson List essay has details and links to complete audio.
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From @sbg1.bsky.social:
“You can fill a very large room with people who have not forgiven Cheney for the Iraq War but who were nonetheless sad to see the passing of a man who dared to speak out about Trump.”

I think that these views fill the very large United States and much of the world.

“Lineman for the county” here is beautiful writing by Peter Baker. And it is a reminder of the virtue of basic, constructive public service.

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#glenncampbell
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(Background to this joke, if you’re not familiar with this USAO gone nuts:)
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Anna, why not text Halligan, asking her to clarify? 😉
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The sadists who’ve designed & are carrying out “Operation Charlotte’s Web” should read the book. It might improve them.

Very strong words. And that they come from Andrew Nagorski makes them a book review to heed.

Happy Birthday!

Farewell & Thank You to the Nuremberg Office of U.S. Chief of Counsel (OCC) In Spring 1945, Mary Frances Langworthy was eighteen years old. She had left high school without graduating, to work. In that final year of World War II, she was employed in the Washington, D.C. ar…

Tomorrow: 80th anniversary of the Nuremberg international trial of leading Nazi war criminals.

Every member of the U.S. prosecution team now is ours in memory.

Here's a new #JacksonList essay on Fran Langworthy, then a young secretary, who was the last survivor.
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Better, because accurate history, yes on one of the subsequent U.S. trials:
“Judgment at Nuremberg.”

* …from any investig’n of former client Reid Hoffman
* made a little, silly political noise on TV to buy time to think & manage actual law enforcement?
* won’t seek nonsense/illegal charges?
* thus will in time be fired?
* which could happen soon(er), if he gets an order to act illegally & refuses.

U.S. Attorney Under Pressure After Order to Investigate Democrats

U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton, SDNY:
* real lawyer
* has already obeyed Main Justice order to (re)start Jeffrey Epstein-related criminal investigations?
* career AUSAs & FBI agents (some remain in DOJ) handle that
* will recuse….
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/n...

Lindsey Halligan’s admission to practice law should be in jeopardy. Indeed, she and maybe others could face criminal investigation; there is basis here for the E.D.Va. court to appoint special counsel to investigate possible contempt, false statements, and other crimes.

In 2029, we should have a new president and, it can be hoped, the return of a lawful U.S. Department of Justice. And any real federal crimes that Bondi, Halligan, et al. have committed this year will be well within the statute of limitations on prosecution.

Epstein survivors just dropped a powerful message for Congress, and it hits like a warning: no more waiting, the truth is coming, ready or not.

Watch till the end
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Jeffrey Epstein Leaned on His Elite Network for Help as Investigators Closed In A cache of 18,000 messages shows the elite support the disgraced financier got in his “hour of terror.”

Law practice is a free-market business. Some choose to work for deeper pockets & their ends.

So see that choosing. Lawyers who represented Jeffrey Epstein against criminal investigation for child rape, etc. made an I’ll-associate-with-this-for-big-money choice.
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"Destroy[ing]" people has, especially in the context of recalling 20th century German Nazis, awful connotations. I take it that you mean that we must expose and defeat them, with speech and press, and politically, and with, when they have committed crimes, fair criminal law enforcement. Amen.

After the Nuremberg trial had concluded, Justice Felix Frankfurter, Justice Jackson's Supreme Court colleague and friend and Henry L. Stimson's protege for decades, persuaded HLS, then retired from government, to write this important Foreign Affairs article on legal aspects of the Nuremberg trial.