Great essay by @sulliview.bsky.social. My answer/BHAG: to help build a world that values, highly, truth and truth-tellers.

June 14, 1777: The Continental Congress—reps of the 13 States, fighting a revolution—resolved that “the flag of the U.S. be 13 alternate stripes red & white” & “13 stars, white in a blue field.” Legend: George Washington asked Betsy Ross to design the flag’s circle of white stars on blue.

Parade. Thursday. Manhattan.

Replacing Coach Tibs with Mike Brown is increasingly popular. @ny-knicks.bsky.social

Walt Frazier pre-recorded a champions ad. When you know, you know.

Brunson. OG. Brunson again. (And for the City’s glowing spirit all year, don’t overlook Mamdani.)

Director of National Intelligence (DNI) is an important office. Jay Clayton is smart, experienced—but not in intelligence community work—& friendly. But he deferred to the improper order to fire excellent prosecutor Maurene Comey. That by itself shows Clayton’s unfitness.

High admiration for/thanks to Scott Pelley.

This person also should not be a U.S. Judge. Resign tomorrow. www.idahostatejournal.com/judge-ryan-d...

On this date in 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy (NY), moments after claiming victory in California's Democratic Party presidential primary, was shot. He died the next day. He was 42 years old. This was RFK at his home, Hickory Hill, in McLean, Virginia, a month earlier.

People who know (knew) Todd Blanche should be, as public service, talking more about him, his background, and what happened to him.

When, if ever, has the Supreme Court held back on announcing a decision that was “ready?” And has it ever held back announcing a “good” decision until the last day before its summer recess, to end on a high note and steer press and public attention to that perception?

Pres. Trump nominating Todd Blanche to be AG would/will be a variation on a theme that we’ve seen. #Watergate #Kleindienst #criminals www.nytimes.com/1972/02/16/a...

BREAKING: MS Now confirms Trump will formally nominate his former personal lawyer Todd Blanche to be his next attorney general. Todd Blanche mishandled the Epstein files, supported the controversial slush fund to give to insurrectionists, and targeted Trump's perceived enemies.

Jamestown, Chautauqua County, and area friends (*especially if you are at all arts-y, or want to be): Please join us on Saturday evening, June 6, at the Robert H. Jackson Center for a screening of the excellent documentary "Nathan-ism," on Nuremberg trials guard and artist Nathan Hilu.

Buffalo/Erie County and area attorneys and law students: Please join us next Wednesday, June 10, for this Bar Association of Erie County program on the rule of law, challenges, democracy, and lawyers. Details and registration link are here: eriebar.org/event/our-sy...

Clarence B. Jones, a confidant, lawyer and speechwriter for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement, who helped plan the March on Washington and drafted part of Dr. King’s celebrated “I Have a Dream” speech, died on Friday. He was 95.

This seems to be DOJ playing word games—shabby.

Hostility to some of Justice Gorsuch’s thinking is hostility to him sometimes seeing and standing up for aspects of the Declaration’s and the Constitution’s liberalism, egalitarianism, and antiracism. These (MAGA?) critics’ creeds run against those values. @sophiatesfaye.bsky.social

Careful. Supreme Court justices’ children have worked or do work as lawyers, even in law firms or government offices that litigate before the Ct. It raises serious ethical questions, however, when litigants & Justices conceal such employment, preventing public assessment & recusal discussions.

Sneaking around shows awareness of impropriety.

Every “rule of law” person should be calling for the Judge to resign today. Her having sex in chambers shows awful judgment. Her lying about it maybe was a crime. It definitely and seriously impairs her and her Court’s ability to do their work, which is to seek truth from all.

“I wish that E. Jean Carroll committed perjury” is Pres. Trump’s wish. It is not factual predication, which the U.S. Department of Justice requires itself to have before it opens a criminal investigation…. Okay, DOJ used to require factual predication. Now DOJ just goes bogus, for politics.

Since President FDR died in office in 1945, a high risk loss to the U.S. during wartime, historians have examined what happened & how. Same post facto re Pres. Eisenhower, JFK, Reagan, & Biden health issues. Presidential health must be a major, nonpartisan issue. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/u...

Consider what Iran reports that the U.S. says privately: “American officials have acknowledged in multiple messages to Iran that Trump’s tweets are primarily for promotional purposes & media consumption within the United States, & they have recommended that no attention be paid to these statements.”

I assume that Pres. Trump’s judicial nominees also do not know or at least are too scared of truth-deniers to say that Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 presidential election…. which also makes them unfit to serve. @democracydocket.com www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Totally fine that VP Vance plus-one-accompanied his wife, who years ago clerked for CJ Roberts, to the CJ’s reunion dinner with former law clerks & their partners. Totally wise in these times that the CJ made no special mention of Usha Vance’s husband’s presence.

Important essay by Sheila Bair, former counsel to Sen. Bob Dole, who was a Voting Rights Act architect and a Lincoln—an equal citizenship, anti-white supremacy—Republican. @sheilabair.bsky.social

All athletes & coaches should join Black athletes & coaches in refusing to work for State governments that are working to destroy Black voting rights and political representation. And former fans of GOP-white supremacy States’ schools: Root & spend money elsewhere. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Thank you, Benjamin Wittes & all who are working to get the U.S. Department of Justice back to law-abiding and law-enforcing. (And hey, your laser hit my former Main Justice office window.) @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org

Thread (1/6): On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court of the U.S. held in Brown v. Board of Education & companion cases that it was unconstitutional for government to segregate schoolchildren based on white supremacist notions of race.

Important, from @tab-delete.bsky.social:

This piece covers a lot of ground. On Supreme Court justices, note a type of politician-lawyer that, in prior eras, regularly got nominated & confirmed: Senator Black, Sen. Byrnes, rural NY & nat’l Jackson, Sen. Burton, AG Clark, Gov. Warren, DAG White, VA lawyer Powell, st. judge O’Connor, etc.

Most U.S. Supreme Court Justices have offspring. All of them know young people. I hope that the Justices listen to and learn from what younger people — they are, to quote the Constitution, “our Posterity” — have to say about their lives and values.

The Supreme Court majority insists that racism does not exist in the absence of statements expressing racist intent. This turns on its head what the Voting Rights Act says. This gives racists, including justices themselves, legal license if they stick to the script: just do it without saying it.

War overseas. Immigrants here. Law enforcement/security concerns. American loyalties. National unity. Here’s a new #JacksonList essay on all of that, Eleanor Roosevelt, AG Robert H. Jackson, Archibald MacLeish, & fellow Americans in 1941. thejacksonlist.com/2026/05/07/w...

81 years ago today, and tomorrow: Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender to Allied powers. Here's a #JacksonList essay on how VE Day was celebrated a year later, in Nuremberg. thejacksonlist.com/2024/05/08/t...

In time, the U.S. should add another president to Mount Rushmore: Obama. Read this fine report by Peter Slevin on Obama’s past & continuing greatness, which also is about our reasons to keep working, with hope, for a better country and world. @barackobama.bsky.social @peterslevin.bsky.social

A group has put 17k pounds of released Epstein Files on display at the "Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room"—a pop-up library open in NYC this month: www.wired.com/story/a-libr...

Tennessee high school science teacher John Scopes was arrested on this day in 1925 for teaching Darwin/evolution. Happy anniversary to all truth-seeking, thinking-promoting teachers! #OTD www.loc.gov/item/today-i...

Watch James Comey on: * AG Robert H. Jackson’s 1940 speech on federal prosecutor character; * Michael Dreeben’s new essay on that speech; * hope that we’ll soon rebuild an honest U.S. Dept. of Justice. Also read #JacksonList essay linked below. @jamescomey.bsky.social substack.com/@jamescomey/...

Anyone who knew Nicholas DeB. Katzenbach or has studied his life, courage, career, and work for civil rights knows that this DOJ office decorating move by Acting AG Todd Blanche is trolling or most clueless, and in any event nauseating.

Paul Krugman on President Trump’s self-delusion problem: “ A guy who can’t admit that he lost a presidential election to Joe Biden is not going to be able to admit that he lost a war to the mullahs of Iran.”

Marriner Eccles—as Fed chair Jerome Powell knows, Eccles’s public service is a precedent, and a good one. @federalreserve.gov

Read @sifill.bsky.social: “the Court leaves a bare-fisted zero-sum game of partisan politics and an open door to the return of full-on racial exclusion in political representation. So long as it’s dressed up as partisan gerrymandering or incumbency protection, it’s all good.” Vote. Court reform.

Thread: 1/ From Justice Kagan’s dissenting opinion today, joined by Justices Sotomayor & Jackson, in Louisiana v. Callais, where the Supreme Court destroyed what remained of Voting Rights Act protections for racial minorities:

I hope that James Comey even now, dealing with DOJ corruption and this nonsense new criminal case, feels full Al McGuire joy about life’s good things, such as “seashells and balloons.” @jamescomey.bsky.social #Marquette

It was a surprise and pleasure to sit down today on this Madison Square Park bench—a beautiful NYC spot—and find that it is a gift in memory of Dorothy Rodham from her loved ones. Thank you, HRC @hillaryclinton.bsky.social & all.

Every DOJ lawyer and agent who’s worked on this corrupt nonsense…. I’m sure that some have refused/quit/retired. I hope that they, protected by the same First Amendment that does and will protect Jim Comey, will speak up.

Started with trump; so meth math is being heroinsplained?