John Q. Barrett

"No more time for foolishness." --Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., quoting in 1998 a sign that he once saw on the bumper of a taxicab in Lagos, Nigeria.

My guess is that AG Todd Blanche knows that he’s lying and committing misconduct, that this Alaska lawsuit/DOJ action is improper. He should think more about how his loved ones are and will be, for the rest of their lives, thinking about him.

Michael Walzer wrote “Just and Unjust Wars” half a century ago. The war in Gaza made him rethink one of its fundamental principles. www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...

“Me” makes this a sadly true statement. Maine voters, please fire your very weak Senator Susan Collins. Your interests and our country deserve better.

Read Robert Rubin’s very commendable effort to wake people up to the *major* threats to U.S. law, government, economy, and world position that could be imminent, if Pres. Trump seeks to thwart fair elections.

Some people try to grow and use their power to “get” other people just for being one of “them.” That’s prejudice, not rational, individualized, fact-based predication. Don’t be such a person.

Join us tomorrow evening at 1800 in Manhattan at Hughes Hubbard & Reed, LLP, or online, for my Charles Evans Hughes Memorial Lecture. www.nycla.org/course/59th-...

A shameful, very low day for the United States The International Criminal Court embodies rule of law values that have defined the U.S. since 1776. That includes the proud U.S. 1945 role in creating the ICC’s ancestor, the Nuremberg international tribunal. www.bbc.com/news/article...

“__You__ meet with Liz Truss.”

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

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

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

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...

President Trump is a massive liar. It’s why he’s unfit for office, and for every other decent person role. Thank you for this essay and for all of your work, Daniel Dale. @ddale8.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...

Today, September 23, was Fala Day. Here's a new #JacksonList essay with details and a video link. #FDR @teamsters.bsky.social thejacksonlist.com/2026/09/23/h...

Michael Walzer's new essay in Fathom, on Israel & its coming election: “Wanted: Normal Politics beyond Exile and Redemption" fathomjournal.org/the-return-o...

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? ??

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.

Here's a new #JacksonList post, on William E. Jackson, Solicitor General Robert H. Jackson's son, in Nazi Germany and then in London in Summer 1939, as the war in Europe begins. #WWII @ox.ac.uk thejacksonlist.com/2026/09/06/j...

A #JacksonList essay, on 1939 war in Europe, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's handwritten note transcribed. thejacksonlist.com/2026/09/05/f...

Here’s a #JacksonList essay on events eighty-seven years ago. thejacksonlist.com/2026/09/02/j...

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.

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

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.”

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...

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?

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....

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.

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

"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?

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

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

Attorney General Blanche Attorney General! — blanch.

What’s NOT the matter with Kansas: voters choosing to protect judicial independence. kansasreflector.com/2026/08/04/k...