Putting this Republican ~thinking about health care more succinctly: “Homina, homina.”

Here’s Christopher Caldwell & Claremont Institute racist hostility to U.S. values, history, law, and wonderful people. Could this be serious? Or is it just trolling, trying for nihilistic reasons to pull some people downward from what’s right and better?

Mega Death Cab for Cutie

I have a sneaking suspicion that no one involved in this farce, especially Trump, has the foggiest idea what "Memorial" means. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

Congratulations to @harvard.edu for having student @alexbronzini.bsky.social. He understands free thought and speech, academic freedom, and what a university should be.

Who in U.S. public life, past or present, really has been just trolling?—a performance artist who knows it was/knows it is an act, & for whatever ego, power, etc. reasons just stays/stayed with it? This great Kate @klonick.bsky.social memory reminds me that Phyllis Schlafly was, I think, one such.

We in the U.S. used to interpret the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause—no laws establishing religion—to bar these kinds of sectarian, divisive federal government messages. In other words, we chose equality & inclusion over being a Christian, Jewish, Islamic, etc. nation. We were better then.

Possible, soon: Jeffrey Epstein investigation documents containing allegations of Donald Trump crimes, with child victim names redacted. Dates, places, and names of alleged witnesses should *not* be redacted. And then media & all good people should demand scrutiny, facts, and full accountability.

Here's 1945 "Nuremberg trial" Christmas card -- military policemen angels, holding a candle that casts light on the dark world. Peace, law, and light, all!

A DOJ-released photo of Jeffrey Epstein, redacted to conceal a known/possible victim of crime, likely sexual assault. Such Epstein- & ?-protecting over-redacting is illegal. The law permits withholding "personal information of victims." That would be face, maybe more. But should show silhouette,...

Justice Kavanaugh once was a law clerk to U.S. Circuit Judge Walter K. Stapleton. He and colleagues heard cases in the U.S. Courthouse in Philadelphia. Guess what never happened there, then or ever? So why this Kavanaugh extreme hypothesizing today in his concurring opinion in Trump v. Illinois?

A new #JacksonList essay, on deer hunting and dear colleagues at Nuremberg, prosecuting principal Nazi war criminals, in December 1945. Best wishes to you and yours for happy holidays, plus peace, law, and accountability. thejacksonlist.com/2025/12/22/d...

This would be an effort to use Korematsu, which upheld as constitutional Gen. DeWitt/1942/Western Military Command curfews then exclusion of Japanese-Americans. But where’s the factual predicate, the “Venezuela” military attack on the U.S. homeland?

Thank you to U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny (WDNY) for decades of dedicated, high quality public service. www.wgrz.com/article/news...

ICE/CBP lawbreaking today at O’Hare:

Meanwhile, on Earth, in the U.S., actual laws exist… We the People govern ourselves by law, not by anyone’s whim or mania. @kennedycenter.bsky.social

U.S. sanctions against two more International Criminal Court judges. Effect is to disable them from participating in banking, credit, etc. systems. #ICC www.state.gov/releases/off...

A week ago, I watched "Spinal Tap II: The End Continues"--genius, & apologies to my airplane mates for my laughing aloud, a lot. Now I'm in my office in Queens, where "Michael Stivic" lived with Gloria, Archie & Edith & taught kid-me so much (& generated so many more laughs). Thank you, Rob Reiner.

There’s something here of the sprit of Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, which decrees that oath-breaking insurrectionists should not be able to seize U.S. government offices.

Sen. Roger Marshall (Republican) represents Kansas but not its people, their health, or any American’s health. What’s the matter with *him?*

Could be Deadhead Fed hare. I need to see the tee-shirt.

Here's @arethmann.bsky.social's report on Michael Walzer's lecture on just war, Israel, and Hamas, delivered at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem on November 30th. A link to the video is below.

U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff (SDNY) on cryptocurrency, a “seeming racket.” This is a super primer and a sobering alert from an in-the-legal-trenches expert. @nybooks.com @uscourts.bsky.social

More Supreme Court leaking?—a Court heads up to Pres. Trump that it’s about to hold that his tariffs are illegal? @hcrichardson.bsky.social: “Observers expect the Supreme Court to hand down a decision about the constitutionality of Trump’s tariffs later this week….”

Criminal Procedure. Mangione suppression hearing. Reasonable warrantless search incident to lawful arrest. “Don’t pull a Moser”—rough on now-retired Altoona PD Sgt. Christopher Moser’s rep, which might be merited or might not, but in any case sound police thinking. www.nysun.com/article/it-w...

Here's a new #JacksonList essay, "Putting Nuremberg's Opera House to Proper Use (1945)." (Spoiler: it was used by Dave Brubeck -- born on this date in 1920 -- and his band, not by Robert Jackson, et al. to prosecute Nazi war criminals.) thejacksonlist.com/2025/12/06/p...

This DOJ behavior is absurd. The court held that Halligan is not legally a United States Attorney. There is no need for a further order to implement that. Her name on a brief, indictment, etc. is graffiti. Any “US attorney” action taken by her is invalid because it is the conduct of an imposter.

Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:

Every underling who participated in doing this should, instead, have refused. What would happened then? Probably nothing, in this sea of cowardice. Or maybe people would have been fired into being heroes to all decent people—which would be worth so much more than a job in this degraded HHS.

Important comments from expert Eric Muller on Rachel Maddow's new (and listen-worthy) podcast "Burn Order," about U.S. government treatment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. @elmunc.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social

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).

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. open.substack.com/pub/annabowe...

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

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)." thejacksonlist.com?s=%22Thanksg...

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.

General John DeWitt… Incarceration for ethnicity. Japanese-Americans. @korematsuctr.bsky.social

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.

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. thejacksonlist.com/2025/11/21/o...

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. @peterbakernyt.bsky.social #glenncampbell @remhq.bsky.social

Anna, why not text Halligan, asking her to clarify? 😉 @annabower.bsky.social

The sadists who’ve designed & are carrying out “Operation Charlotte’s Web” should read the book. It might improve them.

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. thejacksonlist.com/2025/11/18/f...

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 @housedemocrats.bsky.social @houserepublicans.bsky.social

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. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

U.S. Sec'y of War Henry L. Stimson was a father of what became, after World War II, the Nuremberg war crimes trial of principal Nazi German leaders. And Stimson supported Pres. Truman’s choice of Justice Robert H. Jackson (HLS's former FDR Cabinet colleague) to be U.S. chief prosecutor. @cfr.org