A Rupture on the Right Over Prosecutors, Politics and the Rule of Law
Differing interpretations of Attorney General Robert H. Jackson’s classic 1940 speech, “The Federal Prosecutor,” figured in ...
National Review8 年
Robert Jackson vs. James Comey on National-Security Prosecutions
In 1940, one year before he became a Supreme Court justice, then-Attorney General Robert H. Jackson addressed a conference of United States Attorneys and delivered a short speech titled “The ...
SCOTUSblog4 年
Judge Jon Newman gives Robert H. Jackson Lecture on the Supreme Court of the United States
On August 16, Judge Jon Newman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit gave a lecture, “The Supreme Court — Then and Now,” in which he compared the Supreme Court today to the court in October ...
PBS5 年
The Prosecution
They were: Robert H. Jackson for the United States; Hartley Shawcross for the United Kingdom; General R. A. Rudenko for the Soviet Union; and François de Menthon and Auguste Champetier de Ribes ...