Barnette at 75
Thursday, June 14, 2018, will mark the 75th anniversary of the decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, embodied in Justice Robert H. Jackson’s opinion for the Court, in West Virginia State...
View ArticleJackson List: Father Moritz Fuchs (1925-2018), Nuremberg’s Bodyguard,...
My friend Father Moritz Fuchs, Jr., truly one of the best people I have ever met, died yesterday in Syracuse, New York. He succumbed to cancer, to a systemic infection, to being just short of age 93,...
View ArticleJackson List: Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella’s Jackson Lecture, Chautauqua...
I am very pleased to report that the Honourable Rosalie Silberman Abella, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, will deliver Chautauqua Institution’s 14th annual Robert H. Jackson Lecture on the...
View ArticleJackson List: The World Outlaws War (1928)
For the Jackson List: On Monday, August 27, 1928—ninety years ago today—representatives of fifteen nations, meeting in Paris, signed a treaty that outlawed war as an instrument of national policy. They...
View ArticleJackson List: DOJ Antitrust Division Jackson-Nash Address, Sept. 20, 2018
Earlier this year, the Antitrust Division in the United States Department of Justice established the Jackson-Nash Address. According to Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim, the goal of this...
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Jackson List: Resignation Offer, Presidential Response (1941)
In January 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated his number two official in the United States Department of Justice, Solicitor General Robert H. Jackson, to move up into the Department’s top...
View ArticleJackson List: Video of Barnette 75th anniversary symposium, Florida...
I had the opportunity to participate last Friday in an excellent symposium, “Barnette at 75: The Past, Present, and Future of the ‘Fixed Star in Our Constitutional Constellation,’” at Florida...
View ArticleJackson List: Public Life & the Pursuit of Good Information (Thanksgiving 1937)
On the evening of Wednesday, November 24, 1937, United States Assistant Attorney General Robert H. Jackson, then heading the Antitrust Division in the U.S. Department of Justice, spoke in Washington at...
View ArticleJackson List: Christmas & C.A.R.E. (1947)
From May 1945 until October 1946, United States Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson served, by appointment of President Truman, as U.S. Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis War Criminals in...
View ArticleJackson List: Spandau Prisoner Rudolf Hess
Rudolf Hess was one of Adolf Hitler’s earliest friends and devoted supporters. Imprisoned with Hitler in the 1920s, Hess assisted his writing of Mein Kampf. Hess was at Hitler’s side as the Nazi...
View ArticleJackson 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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