John Q. Barrett
@johnqbarrett.bsky.social
Benjamin N. Cardozo Professor of Law,
St. John's University, NYC.
Robert H. Jackson Center.
Jackson biographer.
Constitutional Law, Criminal Procedure,
Legal History, Nuremberg, SCOTUS.
Iran-Contra & DOJ alum.
Wisconsin native.
#JacksonList
St. John's University, NYC.
Robert H. Jackson Center.
Jackson biographer.
Constitutional Law, Criminal Procedure,
Legal History, Nuremberg, SCOTUS.
Iran-Contra & DOJ alum.
Wisconsin native.
#JacksonList
November 25, 1986: President Reagan, then AG Meese, disclosing discovery of the diversion of funds.
November 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
November 25, 1986: President Reagan, then AG Meese, disclosing discovery of the diversion of funds.
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.
Professor J.R.R. Tolkien's and Mrs. Edith Tolkien's invitation to a 21st birthday party for their son, Christopher John Reuel Tolkien.
November 22, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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.
Professor J.R.R. Tolkien's and Mrs. Edith Tolkien's invitation to a 21st birthday party for their son, Christopher John Reuel Tolkien.
Congratulations, thank you, and every good wish, NYC Mayor-elect Zorhan Mamdani!
November 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Congratulations, thank you, and every good wish, NYC Mayor-elect Zorhan Mamdani!
Use your vote. Every time. But only when there are elections.
November 5, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Use your vote. Every time. But only when there are elections.
Thanks, Twin Cities hosts/friends. It was an honor to lecture on Oct. 28 at the Harold C. Deutsch World War II Round Table (with Dr. Connie Harris & Senator Rudy Boschwitz), and at a Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota & the Dakotas meeting, re Robert H. Jackson & the Nuremberg trials.
October 31, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Thanks, Twin Cities hosts/friends. It was an honor to lecture on Oct. 28 at the Harold C. Deutsch World War II Round Table (with Dr. Connie Harris & Senator Rudy Boschwitz), and at a Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota & the Dakotas meeting, re Robert H. Jackson & the Nuremberg trials.
LaGuardia Terminal C.
Wow & kudos if this was someone’s decision to avoid using an unadorned “88.”
And if some other reason caused this gate-naming decision, still how great/lucky.
@deltaairways.bsky.social
#ADL
#anti-Hitler
Wow & kudos if this was someone’s decision to avoid using an unadorned “88.”
And if some other reason caused this gate-naming decision, still how great/lucky.
@deltaairways.bsky.social
#ADL
#anti-Hitler
October 26, 2025 at 11:17 AM
LaGuardia Terminal C.
Wow & kudos if this was someone’s decision to avoid using an unadorned “88.”
And if some other reason caused this gate-naming decision, still how great/lucky.
@deltaairways.bsky.social
#ADL
#anti-Hitler
Wow & kudos if this was someone’s decision to avoid using an unadorned “88.”
And if some other reason caused this gate-naming decision, still how great/lucky.
@deltaairways.bsky.social
#ADL
#anti-Hitler
Like this is hard? — Mom, Donny.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Like this is hard? — Mom, Donny.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Here’s former DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith’s offer to testify to Congress—admirably cooperative.
His request that it be in public is desirable; that would make facts visible to all.
And his request for DOJ guidance, assurances, & file access is exemplary; it models for DOJ how to be law-abiding.
His request that it be in public is desirable; that would make facts visible to all.
And his request for DOJ guidance, assurances, & file access is exemplary; it models for DOJ how to be law-abiding.
October 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Here’s former DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith’s offer to testify to Congress—admirably cooperative.
His request that it be in public is desirable; that would make facts visible to all.
And his request for DOJ guidance, assurances, & file access is exemplary; it models for DOJ how to be law-abiding.
His request that it be in public is desirable; that would make facts visible to all.
And his request for DOJ guidance, assurances, & file access is exemplary; it models for DOJ how to be law-abiding.
From the No Kings March yesterday in Manhattan—thank you, Navy Mom, Navy son, and all who are in military or other public service and upholding law and their oaths.
@navytimes.bsky.social @navalnews.com @usni.org
@navytimes.bsky.social @navalnews.com @usni.org
October 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
From the No Kings March yesterday in Manhattan—thank you, Navy Mom, Navy son, and all who are in military or other public service and upholding law and their oaths.
@navytimes.bsky.social @navalnews.com @usni.org
@navytimes.bsky.social @navalnews.com @usni.org
No Kings March, Manhattan.
October 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
No Kings March, Manhattan.
Dust jacket (beautiful):
September 23, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Dust jacket (beautiful):
The title of @kamalaharris.com’s book “107 Days” echoes “The 168 Days,” Joseph Alsop’s & Turner Catledge’s great 1938 book on FDR’s 1937 “Court-packing” legislation proposal and the ensuing Supreme Court and congressional actions. It’s a must-learn, must-re-read, must-remember.
September 23, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The title of @kamalaharris.com’s book “107 Days” echoes “The 168 Days,” Joseph Alsop’s & Turner Catledge’s great 1938 book on FDR’s 1937 “Court-packing” legislation proposal and the ensuing Supreme Court and congressional actions. It’s a must-learn, must-re-read, must-remember.
Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Andrew W. Mellon — a big deal income tax deficiency case in 1935-1937, and in Pittsburgh tomorrow at this reenactment program. I look forward to participating.
September 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Andrew W. Mellon — a big deal income tax deficiency case in 1935-1937, and in Pittsburgh tomorrow at this reenactment program. I look forward to participating.
Wonderful to run into my friend Karen Korematsu at today’s @rooseveltinstitute.org Four Freedoms Awards.
@korematsuctr.bsky.social
@korematsuctr.bsky.social
September 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Wonderful to run into my friend Karen Korematsu at today’s @rooseveltinstitute.org Four Freedoms Awards.
@korematsuctr.bsky.social
@korematsuctr.bsky.social
The FBI is a great law enforcement agency.
Its incompetent Director is destroying it, to the detriment of all Americans.
Its incompetent Director is destroying it, to the detriment of all Americans.
September 11, 2025 at 11:37 AM
The FBI is a great law enforcement agency.
Its incompetent Director is destroying it, to the detriment of all Americans.
Its incompetent Director is destroying it, to the detriment of all Americans.
If your Dad was a financial advisor to Hermann Goering and helped him with art-stealing during his Nazi heyday and you ended up with a famous stolen painting that the world thinks is lost and you hang it in your living room,...
August 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
If your Dad was a financial advisor to Hermann Goering and helped him with art-stealing during his Nazi heyday and you ended up with a famous stolen painting that the world thinks is lost and you hang it in your living room,...
Kudos to @ryanjreilly.com for his TV interview background: the official, controversially modernist, DOJ portrait of U.S. Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach.
August 23, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Kudos to @ryanjreilly.com for his TV interview background: the official, controversially modernist, DOJ portrait of U.S. Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach.
One more Washington image today:
Congress.
Our form of government.
Beautiful Capitol building.
“Freedom” standing tall, atop.
No one home.
Congress.
Our form of government.
Beautiful Capitol building.
“Freedom” standing tall, atop.
No one home.
August 22, 2025 at 12:40 AM
One more Washington image today:
Congress.
Our form of government.
Beautiful Capitol building.
“Freedom” standing tall, atop.
No one home.
Congress.
Our form of government.
Beautiful Capitol building.
“Freedom” standing tall, atop.
No one home.
Methodist Building — once home (residence) of Supreme Court justices — messaging its Capitol Hill neighbors.
August 22, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Methodist Building — once home (residence) of Supreme Court justices — messaging its Capitol Hill neighbors.
At Washington D.C’s Union Station, the A. Philip Randolph statue has been moved & placed inside plexiglass.
So can a sculptor now replace the eyeglasses in his right hand? They were snapped off by someone years ago, when the original statue display was new.
@amtrak.com
So can a sculptor now replace the eyeglasses in his right hand? They were snapped off by someone years ago, when the original statue display was new.
@amtrak.com
August 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM
At Washington D.C’s Union Station, the A. Philip Randolph statue has been moved & placed inside plexiglass.
So can a sculptor now replace the eyeglasses in his right hand? They were snapped off by someone years ago, when the original statue display was new.
@amtrak.com
So can a sculptor now replace the eyeglasses in his right hand? They were snapped off by someone years ago, when the original statue display was new.
@amtrak.com
History, plus food for deep thought today: at Chautauqua Institution @chq1874.bsky.social, in terrain, 19th century Palestine Park.
August 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
History, plus food for deep thought today: at Chautauqua Institution @chq1874.bsky.social, in terrain, 19th century Palestine Park.
Thank you, Jim Lovell.
August 9, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Thank you, Jim Lovell.
Flamingo 🦩 wisdom.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
July 4, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Flamingo 🦩 wisdom.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social