Rachel Barkow
NYU law professor and faculty director of the Zimroth Center on the Administration of Criminal Law. Author of Prisoners of Politics (2019) and Justice Abandoned (2025).
- I didn't think anything could be more cowardly or empty than when she has expressed her "concern" but "urging a pause" definitely takes over. Maine, how can you keep this person in office? Can't you urge her to take a pause for six years in the next election?
- Grateful to Darryl Brown of @uvalaw.bsky.social for reviewing my book, Justice Abandoned, in Jotwell. You can read the review here: crim.jotwell.com/the-supreme-...
- Reposted by Rachel BarkowFrom the NY Post. You know they are really scrambling when they are running "The gun was no angel" stories.
- Reposted by Rachel BarkowMinneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
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- Reposted by Rachel BarkowVery glad he's leaving us one more book: www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
- Dick Fallon was a brilliant scholar, inspirational teacher, and all-around wonderful human being. I owe my career to him. He was the best mentor, and I will miss him. I'm glad I had a chance to tell him how much he meant to me before he passed, but the pain is still searing. RIP to a beautiful soul.
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- Dick Fallon was a brilliant scholar, inspirational teacher, and all-around wonderful human being. I owe my career to him. He was the best mentor, and I will miss him. I'm glad I had a chance to tell him how much he meant to me before he passed, but the pain is still searing. RIP to a beautiful soul.
- Governors, Use Your Clemency Powers www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/o...
- Good morning, NYC!!!!
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- Reposted by Rachel Barkowdamn -- Duckworth to Hegseth: "If you want to be the DHS secretary, maybe you can apply for that job when you're fired from this one due to your incompetence."
- Does the ICE Deputy Field Director look for people to detain by following his nose? It always knows.
- Reposted by Rachel BarkowPlease read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. (via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)
- Voted today. No Cuomo and #nokings
- I would like to go back in time to the French Open mens' final yesterday when I didn't think about all the awful things in the world for 5 1/2 glorious hours
- Love this!
- If you're in NYC this Thursday, please come join us to talk about mass incarceration and the Supreme Court and some lessons for current court cases involving the Trump Administration's threats to due process.
- When the Framers put the pardon power next to the commander-in-chief power in Article II, I'm sure this is what they had in mind
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- It was a pleasure to speak with @steveinskeep.bsky.social this morning about Trump’s recent pardons and how they compare to the historical use of the pardon power www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...
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- Really fun talking about my book, Justice Abandoned: How the Supreme Court Ignored the Constitution and Enabled Mass Incarceration with @epps.bsky.social and @williambaude.bsky.social on @dividedargument.bsky.social dividedargument.com/episodes/gor...
- I wrote about the parallels between Trump’s current threats to due process and Nixon’s campaign to expand pretrial detention thehill.com/opinion/crim...
- If you’re in NYC on June 5, please join us for a conversation about the Supreme Court’s role in enabling mass incarceration and its current challenges in the Trump Admonistration
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- The Supreme Court was tested before w/claims that public safety requires the Constitution to yield. It caved, mass incarceration followed. Join me, @preetbharara.bsky.social & @stroud.bsky.social for a discussion of how this history informs current challenges www.brennancenter.org/events/const...
- I've seen some awful "fear of too much justice" arguments in my day, and this one is right up there.
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- Stay Tuned with Preet just launched on Substack! Find thoughtful, measured, and informed comments on law and politics from a great team (that somehow I managed to get on). I hope you'll give @PreetBharara’s welcome letter a read and check out the content. staytuned.substack.com/p/what-you-c...
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- I'm begging you, PBS, please do not air The Man in the Iron Mask
- He is really all over the resistance. He’ll be waving a strongly worded memo next to rally the troops.
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- Nothing says warrior ethos like the right shade of foundation
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- Reposted by Rachel BarkowThey had lawyers, trials, most were given pretrial release, allowed to testify in their own defense, got discovery, could call witnesses, could cross-examine witnesses, could present mitigation at sentencing, and had a right to appeal.
- Thanks @reason.com and Jacob Sullum for the review of Justice Abandoned in this month's issue! reason.com/2025/04/21/6...
- Reposted by Rachel BarkowQ: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?" Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."
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- Thank you @aclu.org!
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- So proud to be part of the NYU Law faculty
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- I have never been more motivated to vote in a bar election. Folks, this one really matters
