Here's a new #JacksonList essay on a big talent addition to the U.S. Department of Justice.... in 1936.
Professor Felix Frankfurter congratulates Uncle Sam and Robert H. Jackson on April 8, 1936.
#OTD
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April 1, 1940:
U.S. Attorney General Robert H. Jackson gave his rightly famous speech, “The Federal Prosecutor,” on using power ethically in the Department of Justice.
Hope that DOJ can get back to being right.
Here’s a #JacksonList essay.
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Eleanor Roosevelt on U.S. Supreme Court justices (in 1943): making “the distinction between intellectual disagreement and personal liking.”
Here’s a #JacksonList essay:
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Happy wedding anniversary and thank you, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Here are some #JacksonList essays about this FDR & ER wedding date.
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Here are some of my Jackson List essays about Ben Ferencz, friend and hero.
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Part of the history of the U.S. government, including Supreme Court justices, long-recognizing that the 14th Amendment declares the U.S. citizenship of persons born in the U.S.
(Today’s Court will hear arguments on this on 4/1, in Trump v. Barbara.)
#birthrightcitizenship
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Justice Robert H. Jackson had no birth certificate. But he knew that under the U.S. Constitution, his U.S. birth made him a U.S. citizen. He wrote that privately about Porter Pemberton, & publicly about Fred Korematsu.
Here’s a new #JacksonList post with details.
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Here's a new #JacksonList essay, "Court Clerk Good Wishes for Years Ahead (1947)," on Charles Elmore Cropley's affection for Justice Robert H. Jackson.
Happy New Year to you and yours!
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Here's a video bit from me on "Why Robert H. Jackson?"
Thanks, @constitutionctr.bsky.social.
(Thanks, teachers and role models.
Thanks, RHJ.)
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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.
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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.)
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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)."
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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.
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New #JacksonList essay:
“Lawful U.S. Prosecutor at Nuremberg (November 14, 1945).”
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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
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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
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August 8, 1945—eighty years ago today:
The London Agreement, creating the international court that then, at Nuremberg, adjudicated cases against top Nazi war criminals.
Here’s a #JacksonList essay with details and links:
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Typo: Jackson, not Harlan.
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Typo: Jackson, not Harlan
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A new #JacksonList essay--
Justice Robert H. Jackson, appointed in Spring 1945 to be chief U.S. prosecutor of leading Nazi war criminals (what became Nuremberg), recognized that he was unlikely to be able to join his New York fishing buddies in Canada that August.
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That itself would be a book!
See his autobiographical That Man, & my intro. there.
See my articles, chapters, & #JacksonList essays.
And more is coming.
This #JacksonList essay sets the 1941 scene and includes the full text of Jackson’s beautiful, powerful, enduring, and sadly contemporary speech.
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4/4: The above #JacksonList essay builds on powerful memories that my friend Barrett Prettyman shared many times, including here:
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3/4: Here's a #JacksonList essay, "At Hickory Hill (June 1968)," on Prettyman, Jackson, and Kennedy.
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In 2025, Chautauqua County's court in Mayville, NY, was the site of Hadi Matar's trial for attempting to murder Salman Rushdie. From 1913 into the late 1930s, it was the courtroom where Robert H. Jackson tried many cases. His portrait watches over it.
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Here's my #JacksonList post from last May, "Now Hear Brown," describing this project.
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Here are #JacksonList essays on Brown v. Board of Education, decided on May 17, 1954.
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