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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 2d

This was a superb conference—smart, challenging, vital discussions among experts-friends-rule of law leaders. (And I do sometimes “speak” with my hands.) Thank you, International Nuremberg Principles Academy.

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International Nuremberg Principles Academy @nurembergacademy.bsky.social · 2d

Day 3 of #NurembergForum2025 in Courtroom 600 focused on cooperation, legitimacy & prevention. Panels with top experts explored international law & atrocity prevention, concluding with reflections on confronting totalitarian pasts. See you in October 2026! #NueForum

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 3d

Early ‘90s: I was standing at Pennsylvania Ave. & 13th St. NW in Washington DC when a private car stopped at the light, right in front of me. The passenger: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D.-CA). I saw & thru closed car windows heard her yell for ~15 seconds at the driver, a young man. Then he drove on.

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 3d

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 3d

N.B. re Pres. Trump sympathy for war criminals.
@janemayer.bsky.social
@kschake.bsky.social
@newyorker.com

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 3d

Pres. Trump has a powerful tool in Attorney General Bondi. She is following his orders and prosecuting his enemies (two so far). That makes her corrupt, them criminal conspirators (who no one can prosecute?), and, as @jeffreytoobin1.bsky.social details here, Trump worse than Nixon.
#Watergate

Jeffrey Toobin Official @jeffreytoobin1.bsky.social · 3d

Richard Nixon's enemies did better than Donald Trump's. My column in @nytimes

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | A Perilous Difference Between the Trump and Nixon Eras

www.nytimes.com

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 4d

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 4d

Nuremberg Forum 2025 has begun online & in Palace of Justice Courtroom 600, where the U.S. 80 years ago led the international process to hold Nazi criminals accountable for World War II crimes.
Over a dozen nations sent diplomatic representatives to the Forum’s opening.
Shamefully, the U.S. did not.

International Nuremberg Principles Academy @nurembergacademy.bsky.social · 5d

⏳ Nuremberg Forum 2025: One Day to Go! ⏳

On-site spots are full — but you can still join online to be part of an inspiring exchange on international law, accountability & global justice — with thought-provoking debates on international criminal law.

👉 Register & see the programme: bit.ly/42yOlP1

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 4d

See Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 2017 New Yorker article on rereading Speer’s __Inside the Third Reich__.
www.newyorker.com/books/second...

Rereading Albert Speer’s “Inside the Third Reich”

Right-wing populism is rising around the world; there are lessons to be learned from the memoir of Hitler’s close associate.

www.newyorker.com

John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 4d

Who is President Trump’s Albert Speer, building such a model (whether it’s serious or just trolling)?

I think I know what Speer’s father would say about this, based on what he said about his son’s designs for Hitler’s “Germania,” and I agree: “Mad.”
#Nazis
#Nuremberg

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 4d

Press pool: “On Trump’s desk in the Oval Office today was a plan for a triumphal arch on the other side of the river from the Lincoln Memorial”

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 5d

U.S. v. Letitia James.

An indictment in which District?

Obtained by which — unethical, because proper DOJ lawyers don’t do DoorDash deliveries — prosecutors?

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 5d

An important @dicktofel.bsky.social reminder that U.S. constitutional law is the U.S. people—it is the law that is constitutive of us. So don’t expect courts to “save” us from ourselves. Do stand for right values (such as press freedom), moral substance, and making better choices.

Richard Tofel @dicktofel.bsky.social · 5d

Why protecting free speech and a free press is most importantly a question of what we value. This week’s Second Rough Draft newsletter

open.substack.com/pub/dicktofe...

Freedom of the Press Isn’t Just a Legal Issue

Why constitutional values are even more important than case law

open.substack.com

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 5d

Very important @emptywheel.bsky.social thread, on media failures to report Pres. Trump delusions & absurd conduct.

This thread itself is a corrective, which you can make more real & effective by reading this & sharing this.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 5d

I couldn't find stories in other outlets about,
1) POTUS is clearly OUT OF HIS MIND & as he was babbling WH announced a "yearly" physical tomorrow 6 mos after last one
2) FUCKING PIZZAGUY WAS TREATED AS AN EXPERT
3) Trump, whose Wormtongue is talking suspending habeas corpus, though it was a person

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 6d

AUSAs Nathaniel Lemons and Gabriel Diaz should remember their oaths of office, their professional responsibilities, their good names, and the future knowledge of their children and grandchildren, and then, morally fortified, they should reconsider/refuse/resign from DOJ.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 7d

Nathaniel (Tyler) Lemons and Gabriel Diaz both join the Comey case from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of North Carolina.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 7d

Lindsey Halligan has company on the Comey docket:

Ahead of tomorrow’s arraignment, Nathaniel Lemons and Gabriel Diaz file notices of appearance on behalf of the United States.

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 6d

I look forward to being in Nuremberg this Friday-Sunday, eighty years since the International Military Tribunal commenced, for Nuremberg Forum 2025.

Click the registration link below for program details, and register to join us online.

International Nuremberg Principles Academy @nurembergacademy.bsky.social · Jun 6

Registration is open for Nuremberg Forum 2025! Join us 10–12 Oct in the historic Courtroom 600 to mark 80 years since Nuremberg & explore how to strengthen international criminal law. Info & sign-up: bit.ly/4dLC8KU

#NueForum #NurembergForum2025

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 6d

This is very good—it’s a true service to/must read for U.S. Judges, on their options as they decide cases about the legality of Executive actions.

Marin K. Levy @marinklevy.bsky.social · 15d

Just posted a new essay with @williambaude.bsky.social and Sam Bray -

"Remedies for a Constitutional Crisis" (forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review).

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Remedies for a Constitutional Crisis

<p><span>In a crisis of authority, where it is unclear whether executive officials will comply with judicial decisions, the courts may seem to have limited reme

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 8d

This is "First Monday"--the U.S. Supreme Court begins its new term at 1000 this morning.

From the #JacksonList archive, here are essays about Robert H. Jackson and First Mondays.
@scotushistory.bsky.social
@rhjc.bsky.social
thejacksonlist.com?s=%22First+M...

Search Results for “"First Monday"” – The Jackson List

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 8d

Video, May 3, 2016:
Sen. Ted Cruz’s shining moment in Evansville, Indiana, calling out opponent Donald Trump for being an amoral, narcissistic, pathological liar.
(And the nine-plus years since are so much more evidence that this @sentedcruz.bsky.social was right.)
newsroom.ap.org/editorial-ph...

Newsroom

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 9d

Watch this video. This might be a lawful arrest by ICE agents. But it is inhumane—violent, cruel, unnecessary.

So who, really, would choose to do this? No one who remembers love from family; kindness from neighbors, teachers, coaches; values of decent upbringing. No decent person needs *this* job.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 9d

coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...

“There’s a baby!” ICE agents stop Alamosa family at gunpoint, smash car window

Immigration arrest last week in southern Colorado follows national trend of escalating force from ICE agents

coloradosun.com

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 9d

What specifically does this mean?

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 10d

Excellent, very important episode.

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David Cole @davidcole-gtown.bsky.social · 21d

There’s abuse of power. And then there’s ordering the killing of civilians in cold blood. The latter is called murder under federal law.

Trump has crossed a line. Will it matter?

Getting Away with Murder | David Cole | The New York Review of Books

www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

Getting Away with Murder | David Cole

During his first presidential campaign Donald Trump famously claimed that he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” and not lose

www.nybooks.com

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 10d

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David Cole @davidcole-gtown.bsky.social · 21d

There’s abuse of power. And then there’s ordering the killing of civilians in cold blood. The latter is called murder under federal law.

Trump has crossed a line. Will it matter?

Getting Away with Murder | David Cole | The New York Review of Books

www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

Getting Away with Murder | David Cole

During his first presidential campaign Donald Trump famously claimed that he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” and not lose

www.nybooks.com

John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 10d

He must know better. So yes, this sentence — this performative lying — is unfitness for public office.

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 10d

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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 17d

Remember when Bush fired a bunch of of US attorneys for political reasons and Congress investigated the hell out of the firings and Alberto Gonzales eventually had to step down as AG?

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 17d

Yet another US Attorney fired — this time in California, for… telling people to abide by a court order. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 10d

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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 17d

Remember when Bush fired a bunch of of US attorneys for political reasons and Congress investigated the hell out of the firings and Alberto Gonzales eventually had to step down as AG?

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 17d

Yet another US Attorney fired — this time in California, for… telling people to abide by a court order. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

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