Relax a little bit. People read, think, talk, and talk some more. Sometimes they misfire. When they aren’t actively doing evil, maybe comment. But mostly be kind and move along.

It might be difficult for even Tom Homan to deny that he took cash in a bag — it is, reportedly, on audiotape.

Very good essay/book review by Carlos Lozada. It would be so much better for the U.S. and world right now if we had President @kamalaharris.com. But maybe ‘24, odd & truncated though it was, was her moment. Maybe she’s not the person of vision & guts who will be best for elected office future.

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.

Kirk is not a modern day St. Paul, despite what Cardinal Dolan says. The only thing that such myth-making achieves is fomenting resentment, curtailing dialogue, and stifling action to otherwise prevent this tragedy from happening again, says John Grosso.

Dr. Karl Brandt, in Nuremberg prison in 1945, said his ex-patient Hitler had a “be-right attitude” that became “an absolute wanting-to-be-right attitude.” Brandt said that Hitler came to hate people who knew more than he did, tolerated those who knew as much, & sometimes adored those who knew less.

Tom Homan, of course—don’t autocorrect corruption in government!

If Tom Holman, when a private citizen last year, took a bag of cash to help someone [FBI undercover!], when he joined this Trump administration, get a govt. contract: * not something DOJ-FBI should have leaked; * maybe not a crime under our narrow laws; * obviously don’t hire him; fire him now.

Reminder— In principled times, the U.S. prosecuted prosecutors & judges who used their offices & powers to abuse, charge, prosecute, convict, incarcerate, & murder those they hated, based in their evil politics. Nazis Nuremberg US v. Josef Altstötter, et al. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...

Pres. Trump is dictating that federal prosecutors, in violation of oaths of office to follow law, seek indictments & then prosecute criminal cases that are political revenge, not law enforcement. This is where every honest person must say No. Read this great @joycewhitevance.bsky.social explainer.

Multiple Second Circuit judges sign on to a concurrence that says another judge is making up quotes. "Sure enough, add some words, and the meaning will change" is a withering line.

In June 1945, Justice Owen J. Roberts quit the U.S. Supreme Court. On Sept. 19, eighty years ago today, the Senate confirmed Pres. Truman's nomination of Sen. Harold H. Burton to succeed Roberts. Here's a new #JacksonList essay. @scotushistory.bsky.social thejacksonlist.com/2025/09/19/a...

Guest suggestion for @colbertlateshow.bsky.social: @jimmykimmel.com

Yes, stay the course, @nytimes.com —strong, true reporting.

Check your public television schedules. “Becoming Thurgood” will air multiple times this week and throughout the month. Catch it!

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.

It was a great honor to share a stage with Javier Garcia, CEO of World Central Kitchen and other laureates at the @rooseveltinstitute.org’s 2025 Freedom Awards. WCK, @CVT.org @teenvogue.com and all the award winners show that a better world is possible.

“Torture is meant to silence. To erase identity. To instill fear so deep that it permeates across generations. But we stand in defiance of that fear,” said @simonadams.bsky.social in his acceptance speech for the Freedom from Fear Award from @rooseveltinstitute.org www.cvt.org/articles/sta...

Here's video of the Sept. 13 @rooseveltinstitute.org Four Freedoms Awards. What superb, inspiring recipients, and great remarks! As a FDR Presidential Library trustee, I had the honor to help present the "Freedom from Fear" award to the Center for Victims of Torture, @cvt.org.

OK, maybe life doesn't stink. Meet Tom Harrington, a lifelong Republican and brave anti-Trumper in the reddest state there is. My latest (written in July, when I was in a better mood): newrepublic.com/article/1997...

Brilliant & right, from @timothysnyder.bsky.social; an ideal from two parents in Ukraine & their precious son: Always be kind.

Wonderful to run into my friend Karen Korematsu at today’s @rooseveltinstitute.org Four Freedoms Awards. @korematsuctr.bsky.social

This—advocacy of extermination—is when any decent network fires the guy & gets to work on its new, pro-humanitarian programming.

Here’s video of my Sept. 10 Supreme Court Historical Society online lecture, “Away Without Leave but Back in Washington, Briefly: Nazi Prosecutor Justice Robert H. Jackson on the Road to Nuremberg, September 1945,” with photos and Q&A. Thanks, SCHS, & happy viewing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrfP...

Justice Barrett -- unlike her boss when she was a law clerk, Justice Scalia -- recognizes that the U.S. First Amendment, in guaranteeing freedom of religion, protects all people who, in our "pluralistic society," have a "range of different religions," including *"no religion at all."* #irreligion

The FBI is a great law enforcement agency. Its incompetent Director is destroying it, to the detriment of all Americans.

On the blog, I critique Justice Kavanaugh's attempt to justify Monday's emergency docket ruling greenlighting racial profiling in Los Angeles. He's wrong about everything: standing; the 4th Amendment; the balance of harms; and his suggestion that damages lawsuits are available. 👇

Must-watch: “Becoming Thurgood.” In NYC, it will be on starting in 10 minutes.

Join me on a Supreme Court Historical Society free webinar tomorrow at 1200 EDT, on Justice Robert H. Jackson in September 1945, at the Court but not really, heading for Nuremberg to prosecute Nazi war criminals. @scotushistory.bsky.social Register here: supremecourthistory.org/supreme-cour...

Justice Kavanaugh filed an opinion today telling Justice Sotomayor that it’s “common sense” that a Latina in the U.S. might not be here legally. That’s a deep, deep low point in Supreme Court history—disgraceful. supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf…

Fawn Hall and Oliver North. Really? www.spytalk.co/p/exclusive-...

In this article on JPMorganChase's years of banking for Jeffrey Epstein, note the testimony about attorney Ken Starr's belief -- not just his legal representation of, but his personal support for and belief -- in his client Epstein:

Whenever you can, read Justin Driver.

If you care about our U.S. Department of Justice, and you sure should, this podcast with New Yorker writer @ruthmarcus.bsky.social on her recent, great article about Attorney General Pam Bondi (read it; link below) also is important and worth your listening time. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Very int’g possibility: Epstein & Trump close friendship; then Trump stealing Epstein real estate; then Epstein threatening to reveal that Trump did so with laundered Russian money; then Trump heading that off by alerting law enforcement to Epstein sex crimes…. Yes, informants tell what they know.

Dr. Robert Jay Lifton, psychiatrist, scholar, teacher, writer, example—thank you. #Holocaust #choices www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/o...

Wow, @orioles.com gave Davey Johnson a tribute tonight.

NYC’s departing Mayor Eric Adams is right about Andrew Cuomo. Here are Adams’s words, from a *great* Adams impersonator.

"[Andrew Cuomo] doesn't know that no means no... he doesn't accept no for an answer. He doesn't accept reality and he's going to have to be beat and emasculated again." Former Cuomo aide @lindseyboylan.bsky.social calls him out for staying in the NYC mayoral race despite voters rejecting him.

Serious error: Thinking that losing an election for opposing Pres. Trump corruption & incompetence is “paying a steep political price.” In fact, that, if it happens, is just a price of honest patriotism. That is worth, morally, so much more than being a puppet in office. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Every lawyer should be very proud to be a member of the profession of Georgia Capplemen. #DanMarkel #Adelson #JusticeforDan

Yes, a poor choice by Justice Barrett. Is she getting & turning down talk invitations from venues that offer less home cooking? Yes, NCC & LBJ Library count a bit. But why not stronger interlocutors at more law venues? And, yes this is a commercial venture, but maybe do more free-ticket talks.

It’s interesting that Justice Alito is, if I take this correctly, a grandfather. Is he the Court’s only grandparent? Might being one make him think more about how his votes and opinions, especially in constitutional law cases, impact his “Posterity?” (Preamble) In time, that kid/those kids will.

Donna Adelson’s murder conviction/mandatory life sentence is good news; overwhelming evidence showed her guilt. I hope that the two remaining conspirators also can be held accountable. (They should confess & bargain for reduced sentences.) Mostly, think of Dan Markel & his loved ones.

In Tallahassee, the People of Florida v. Donna Adelson murder trial jury is deliberating. #JusticeforDan www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...

‘Find her guilty:’ Prosecutors’ closing arguments ask jury to follow the evidence to convict Donna Adelson https://www.wctv.tv/2025/09/04/find-her-guilty-prosecutors-closing-arguments-ask-jury-follow-evidence-convict-donna-adelson/ 

Pres. Trump is commanding U.S. forces to act as lawless death squads. Yes, this emulates the conduct of Rodrigo Duterte, now awaiting international trial, when he was president of the Philippines. Also note that this emulates the Gestapo.

Smart @dicktofel.bsky.social guidance, for reporters & all trying to find and follow real news: stay on life-impacting, enduring stories, not daily noise.

Exactly right, from @joycewhitevance.bsky.social: No one covers up what they think is someone else’s hoax against them. Indeed, they disclose everything that they can, to expose the hoax & to prove their own virtue. #Epstein #Maxwell #DOJ

A Trojan Horse?? Anyway, farewell, Jim Walden.