Jackson List: 127th Birthday
Today marks the 127th anniversary of Robert Houghwout Jackson’s 1892 birth, in his family’s farmhouse in Spring Creek Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania. For your Jackson Birthday reading, here are...
View ArticleJackson List: On British Opinion on Nuremberg (1949)
In late October 1946, Justice Robert H. Jackson, just back to the United States from his year-plus away serving as U.S. Chief of Counsel prosecuting Nazi war criminals before the International Military...
View ArticleJackson List: The Federal Prosecutor (1940)
On this date in 1940, Robert H. Jackson—age forty-eight, three months into his service as Attorney General of the United States—gave one of his most important, famous, enduring speeches: The Federal...
View ArticleRIP, Dr. Walter V. Powell (1929-2019)
I write once, twice, or a few times a month to The Jackson List, a private, now very large and ever-growing email list, about U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson and related topics. One...
View ArticleJackson List: Barnette Day
Today, June 14, 2019, marks the 76th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision, embodied in Justice Robert H. Jackson’s opinion for the Court, in West Virginia State Board of Education v....
View ArticleJackson List: Heard July 5th on the National Mall: An Impending Supreme Court...
Below, for reading on this day after Independence Day and on other days, is the speech that Robert H. Jackson, then Attorney General of the United States, delivered in a radio studio on Friday, July 4,...
View ArticleJackson List: Update on DOJ’s Much-Coveted AG Jackson Portrait
During his seven-plus years as a high official in the Executive Branch of the United States Government, Robert H. Jackson served mostly in the U.S. Department of Justice. Yes, Jackson started at...
View ArticleJackson List: Donald B. Verrilli, Jr.’s Jackson Lecture at Chautauqua...
On July 1, 2019, Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., former Solicitor General of the United States, delivered Chautauqua Institution’s 15th annual Robert H. Jackson Lecture on the Supreme Court… * *...
View ArticleJackson List: Respecting the Mother of a Man Killed in Auschwitz (1946)
When the international trial of the Nazi arch-criminals began in Nuremberg in November 1945, Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss (in English, Hoess) was known to have been the commandant of the Nazi...
View ArticleUpdate re The Jackson List
As you might know, I write about Robert H. Jackson (1892-1954), United States Supreme Court Justice and Nuremberg chief prosecutor of Nazi war criminals following World War II. Jackson is one of the...
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